Overview
- Ukrainian forces used a small unmanned ground vehicle to carry a 77-year-old woman out of a frontline area near Lyman in Donetsk, as shown in footage released by the 3rd Army Corps.
- The Cerberus team drove the robot under the eye of a reconnaissance drone and covered it with a blanket marked “Grandma, sit down” to reassure her before loading.
- The trip lasted hours under threat from Russian artillery, and troops later moved her into an armored vehicle for handover to civil-military teams.
- Three other civilians in the area were guided by drones to a collection point where soldiers picked them up in an armored vehicle.
- Officials and media in Ukraine report rapid growth in ground robot use, citing thousands of robot missions in March, a major production jump in 2025, and recent cases of MAUL vehicles evacuating wounded soldiers.