Ukrainian Forces Evacuate Wounded Soldier by Aerial Drone for First Time

A Ukrainian defense firm has used an aerial drone to transport a wounded frontline soldier in what it described as a “historic event” for advancing battlefield medical evacuations.

Drone manufacturer Gurzuf Defence said enemy drones and landmines in the area made a conventional evacuation too dangerous, prompting the use of one of its heavy-lift hexacopters to extract an injured infantryman from Ukraine’s 30th Mechanized Brigade.

The brigade’s specialists worked with the company to develop a method for carrying the soldier while keeping the drone stable in flight.

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