US EditionZelenskyy Alleges Military Robots Captured Russian Battlefield Positions
Zelenskyy said the operation used 22,000 robot missions in three months, underscoring Ukraine’s push to save troops in a grinding war.
- On Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukrainian forces captured a Russian position using only ground robots and drones, marking the first unmanned-only assault without infantry participation or casualties in the conflict.
- During remarks on Arms Makers Day, Zelenskyy noted that Ukrainian robotic systems including Ratel, TerMIT, and Volia completed more than 22,000 missions in three months, operating in hazardous areas instead of soldiers.
- Ukraine's Ministry of Defense reported a dramatic surge in UGV deployments, with missions rising from roughly 2,900 in November 2025 to over 9,000 in March 2026, while active units grew from 67 to 167.
- Major General Curtis Taylor, Commander of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division, wrote that unmanned systems are transitioning from logistics to direct combat roles, calling this conflict "a clarion call to reexamine the role of armor."
- Although this operation remains to be fully independently verified, analysts suggest future warfare will rely on distributed, networked, and expendable unmanned systems operating across multiple domains against Russian forces and other adversaries.
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The Ukrainian president explained that the Ukrainian soldiers managed to take a position held by the Russian forces. To achieve this, only robots and drones were used, remotely piloted without any use of infantry. This is a first, said Volodymyr Zelensky, who foreshadows the way conflicts will be conducted in the future. - War in Ukraine: for the first time, Kiev takes hold of a position held by the Russian army only through robots (Internationa…
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Ukrainian ground robots and drones have demonstrated how to overcome a Russian military position by themselves while forcing the surrender of Russian soldiers, claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. If true, that would represent a significant robotic milestone during the ongoing war that has already been significantly reshaped by drones—and it could offer lessons for how militaries worldwide may use robots and drones to do the dirtiest…
The Ukrainian President reported that robots and drones have won a Russian position on the front line: "The enemies have become themselves and the operation has been carried out without children and without downs on our side."
Ukraine is increasingly using ground robots, with 22,000 missions in three months according to Volodymyr Zelensky. Target for Kiev: expose its men to the risks of the front as little as possible.
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