Horrifying encounter with entity in Russia

Me And 4 of my friends were in the Russian countryside this winter, we stayed at one of my friend's houses from mid-December to the beginning of January, about 20km east of Moscow. On the night before New Year's, we had a terrifying encounter with something horrible. It was 1.30 AM, and we had stayed at the house all day, ate pizza, watched movies and played Mortal Kombat. We had also been to the sauna and had all been in good spirits as later that day it would be New Year's. We were outside my friend's house, which overlooks a very small valley, about 10m in depth and 60m in length and we were blowing up some firecrackers that we had prepared ( his house is quite isolated with the nearest neighbours about 100m away. We blew them up one by one by throwing them into the valley that was next to the house. As we were doing this, I was the first to notice a black silhouette with a glowing cigarette in the distance moving towards us extremely fast. I immediately notified everyone with me and told them to get inside the house's courtyard. My friends saw the figure, were confused as to who it may be and what they were doing but weren't worried, as the figure was a very long way away, and we had at least 2 minutes before he came close enough to properly see our faces or do anything. I looked back at the figure and immediately noticed that his eyes had a faint glow, nothing crazy or bright, just a very faint, yellow/goldish glow, similar to the way a cat's eyes reflect light in the darkness. I also noticed that the figure had travelled a very large distance in the 5 seconds I took to turn around and inform my friends, this was especially worrying as he was walking, not running. I immediately knew that it was time to leave, I ran towards the gate to the house and yelled for my friends to follow me, which after witnessing what I had witnessed, they obliged, except one of them. One of our friends looked frozen in fear, his eyes were wide open, his mouth slightly open too and he was not blinking. This entire time he was looking at the figure. I ran and pushed him in order to get him to move, which made him snap out of some sort of light trance, as he was slightly lost. By this point the figure was about 100m away, and nearly at the same time, all of us were filled by a visceral feeling of dread, not fear, but more like: 'Whatever is happening right now is very, very wrong', we later realised that this probably emanated from the man. As we were entering the garden and ducking behind the fence, we noticed that the man was moving a minimum of 5 times as fast as a regular person running, while making absolutely no noise, even though he was walking. We hid behind the fence for ages and managed to get a picture of him from underneath the fence. He then walked into the nearby woods, leaving behind absolutely no footprints and making no noise at all. I have no clue what this was but we are 100% that whatever this was was not human.

UPDATE!!!: I forgot to add but one of my friends said that the man apparently turned into smoke at one point?? Like white smoke and then materialized again, not sure if I believe him as nobody else saw it.