The Ukrainian navy captured a Russian place utilizing solely floor robots and aerial drones — fully unassisted by any infantry, for the primary time within the warfare, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced.
No lives had been misplaced when the robotic power went into extremely harmful enemy-occupied territory and compelled the troopers there to give up, he mentioned in a video deal with to protection staff this week, with out revealing extra particulars in regards to the mission.
“The longer term is already on the entrance line — and Ukraine is constructing it. These are our floor robotic programs,” Zelensky mentioned, in keeping with Enterprise Insider.
Over the past three months Ukrainian floor robots have carried out greater than 22,000 missions on the entrance traces, in keeping with the president.
“In different phrases, over 22,000 instances, lives had been saved,” he mentioned.
“That is about excessive expertise defending the best worth — human life,” he continued.
Ukraine reportedly has used a report variety of land robots to fend off invading Russian forces, because the war-torn nation continues to ramp up its use of killer droids on the battlefield.
“The frontline is extra like Terminator,” a drone operator with Ukraine’s twenty fifth airborne brigade, named Bambi, informed The Guardian earlier this month. “A land robotic arrives at your place and there may be nothing you are able to do about it.
“You’ll be able to shoot an individual within the chest and so they cease firing. Should you shoot a floor robotic it doesn’t really feel ache.”
Kyiv first deployed floor robots to the battlefield in 2024 and previously two years, the usage of robots shot up exponentially — with manufacturing growing practically sixfold in 2025, rising because the quickest rising half in Ukraine’s protection expertise sector.
