“It is a war of robots. It's not the future, it's now. … I know a case where a ground robot was attacked by an FPV drone, and the robot went from there and fired its assault weapon at the FPV. So robots are fighting.”
Preston Stewart · Policy · November 2026
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Asked how his unit pulls wounded soldiers off the battlefield, the Ukrainian National Guard officer says ground robots and large drones increasingly do evacuations because FPV drones hit vehicles. A first-hand account of how unmanned systems have taken over front-line logistics.
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and they're just scattered throughout they're all across that gray zone like that
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all who uh all uh who survived uh yes uh there's no big blindash i litamakoprazati just dugout there's no big dugout for 10 for 20 soldiers now for russian actuality for one soldier who whole yeah
we've seen and you've spoken to how the russian military doesn't care very much about the lives of their soldiers it seems like the opposite in ukraine i was hoping you could talk about what you guys do to pull the wounded off the battlefield and take care of your own soldiers especially in areas…
uh today uh today and uh today for more and more these works takes the robots uh robots uh ugv ugv robots ugv and flying big drones flying uh on that month was first uh um case uh was first case when flying drone uh survive uh our soldiers uh evacuated our soldiers and uh now in the all ukrainian…
i had a question about there is a big recent operation in limon by the third corps vivaldi and it's i just was interested if did you guys see any effect of that did russian operations change um did that bleed over into your sector at all
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