According to Business Insider, in addition to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the Ukrainian army has also begun deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UGVs) on the battlefield to reduce the situation of soldiers having to face direct fire.
UGV is considered to be a key factor for the Ukrainian army in the context of Russia's overwhelming army.
Oleksandr Yabchanka, head of the robot system of Ukraine's Da Vinci Wolves Battalion, said the UGV could carry out a variety of tasks, including spreading mines, transporting equipment, attacking enemy positions and evacuating wounded soldiers.
However, Mr. Yabchanka said that using UGVs to evacuate wounded soldiers is only considered when there is no other choice, because in some situations, these robots can make war invalids more dangerous.
According to him, there is always a risk of UGV losing connection when operating in the field, because the technology is still relatively new and has not been widely deployed in the entire Ukrainian army. When that happens, the disabled soldiers may be left in the middle of the battlefield without anyone to support them, while their teammates cannot contact to check the situation.
Although he acknowledged that evacuating injured soldiers could lead to casualties, Yabchanka argued that at least the injured were still with teammates in critical condition.
At least four soldiers are needed to move one wounded person off the front line, Yabchanka said. This is an extremely difficult task in the context of the current fierce war, with dense reconnaissance UAVs, continuous artillery fire and medical forces being regularly targeted.
He shared that evacuating without being detected is "very difficult", even in some cases "impossible". At that time, the rescue team will almost certainly be discovered and there is a risk of being hit by enemy fire, and the injured will not be an exception.
When we cannot evacuate safely, we use ground robots, mong mong mong said, stressing that this can only be done when there is really no other choice.
