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Zelenskyy 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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On Wednesday, a Ukrainian unit told the AFP that it had carried out more than 100 attacks on the front using ground robots, with President Zelensky recently congratulating him on taking a Russian position thanks to this new method.
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Ukraine captures enemy Russian position using only robots, no humans: ‘The future is already on the front line’
The Ukrainian military captured a Russian position using only ground robots and aerial drones — completely unassisted by any infantry, for the first time in the war.
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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