Overview
- Unit surveillance spotted an elderly woman on a cratered road near Lyman, and the 60th Separate Mechanised Brigade sent a ground robot to reach her.
- To calm her, troops covered the machine with a blanket and left a note reading “Grandma, hop on!” so she would climb aboard.
- The extraction took about four hours, after which soldiers moved her into an armored vehicle and later transferred her to the Angels patronage service.
- Three other villagers nearby were guided by drones to an evacuation point and were taken out of the combat zone.
- Footage and posts from the Third Army Corps and the 60th Brigade document the operation, while reports differ on her age and some outlets name the robot as Cerberus, a detail not independently verified; the episode highlights wider Ukrainian adoption of ground drones that keep people out of direct fire and can evacuate casualties or move supplies.