Ukraine Claims Robots Captured Russian Army Position for First Time

What Happened?

Ukrainian President Zelenksyy claimed that unmanned ground and aerial vehicles had worked together to capture a position previously held by the Russian Army. The robots reportedly took the positions without any direct involvement from human Ukrainian fighters, the latter of whom also were said to have suffered no casualties. 

President Zelenskyy issued a statement about the event, saying, ‘The occupiers surrendered, and the operation was carried out without infantry and without losses on our side.’ There was no immediate comment on the incident from Russian officials or from Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov. 

Why it Matters

If true, the taking of a manned position on the battlefield exclusively by robots could be a first in the history of warfare. The war in Ukraine has provided both Russian and Ukrainian forces with the opportunity to employ vast numbers of unmanned vehicles in combat.

Attack drones have come to dominate the conflict, accounting for more than eighty percent of the casualties last year, according to both sides. Thousands of unmanned aerial and ground drones are currently believed to be in use in Ukraine…

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According to Ukraine’s military, in the last year, unmanned ground robotic systems performed over twenty thousand missions in the war against Russia. The exact number of unmanned systems being employed by Russia and Ukraine remains unknown, but it is likely in the tens of thousands. Both sides have been mass-producing a wide variety of attack drones, which are both relatively cheap and lethal. Last month, Russia launched the first known one thousand drone attack on Ukraine, though the damage appears to have been limited. 

One reason why mass drone attacks may have caused less destruction than bombing raids by conventional aircraft is that drones are smaller and therefore carry warheads not as big as conventional bombs. While conventional human-flown bombers and fighter aircraft can drop munitions with warheads weighing several thousand pounds, drones tend to carry warheads that are much less massive and, by extension, less destructive.

Though most drones lack the massive destructive power of conventional bombs, they make up for it with their ability to accurately target personnel. Many attack drones are designed to kill one or two enemy soldiers, and they are used as hunter-killer munitions that can loiter on the battlefield until they find a suitable target.

A significant amount of verified video footage from Ukraine is available online, and in many instances, drones can be seen targeting individual soldiers directly with lethal results. For those who use drones and those targeted by them, drones are very personal weapons systems.

How it Affects You

Robotic warfare in Ukraine is rapidly advancing, and it is likely technology currently utilized in Ukraine will soon find its way to the rest of the world. Individualized hunter-killer drones would make ideal weapons for assassinating heads of state or other high-profile targets, and it is likely, in the future, those kinds of attacks will increase as the technology spreads. 

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