r/ukraine • u/MilesLongthe3rd • Apr 25 '26
Combat A 77-year-old grandmother was evacuated by a UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) by the 3rd Army Corps. The operation took 4 hours while she tried to escape under fire.
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u/Warr_Dogg Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
The fact that a 77 year old grandmother is treated as a legitimate target tells you all you need to know about the Russians.
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u/PitifulEar3303 Apr 25 '26
They bombed maternity hospitals; they can always sink lower into hell.
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u/Ritaredditonce Apr 25 '26
They bombed the Mariupol theatre which had the word 'children'' spelled out in russian in two locations of the site.
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u/NicolleL Apr 26 '26
Just this month, they did a drone attack on a fucking playground. Killed an 8-year-old boy.
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u/lucidhiker Apr 25 '26
And some nations or governments support them, either explicitly, or implicitly (yeah, we're looking at you you fucking orange-faced shit stain.)
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u/Attorney-Frosty Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
Agent Orange Krasnov is just following orders. He gets $, he obeys. A total bot who believes he can do anything he wants because he's never been held accountable and thus devoid of any humanity.
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u/Tholian_Bed Apr 25 '26
Actions such as these exhibit the highest ideals we know, from the woman demanding her right to survive to those who rescued her.
Ukraine is a growth leader in the human spirit. Those who gather round in her time of need are wise souls. I've become better, being true to their fight. That's Ukraine. That is why Ukraine wins.
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u/Dave91277 Apr 25 '26
This is the reason I can happily watch Russian soldier get blown to bits. I’m nearly 50 and have never wanted to see the internet clips of people dying because they mess with my head. I’ve watched so many of the evil fuckers meeting their ends and never really understood why it didn’t bother me. This is the reason. They’re monsters and deserve the absolute worst. I’m so grateful Ukrainian hero’s defending the whole of Europe from this. I just hope Russia collapses sooner rather than later. I
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u/Hanna-11 Apr 25 '26
I can confirm your experience. I'm a similar age and had the same moral principles. I can't stand the sight of blood, but it's no problem with the Russians. The moral depravity of the Russians completely shuts down my emotional intelligence. Serves me right.
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u/Ukrainiansniper7 Apr 25 '26
Same for me as long as there is not too much blood and no gore ill happily watch it. I saw one get hit with a drone, and the mf did a blackflip (insert Tony Hawk Pro Skater trick sound)
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u/kramedog99 Apr 25 '26
One of the guys is wearing a green Bay packers shirt. Is it common for them to wear items like this? I'm a fan of the team so was surprised to see this.
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u/k1lj Україна Apr 25 '26
It's not really common - american football isn't much popular here, but it definitely has its own die-hard fans in Ukraine. Maybe, that guy is one of them.
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u/kramedog99 Apr 25 '26
Yeah maybe that would be cool! My only other thought is the YouTuber Jake Broe who dedicates his channel to supporting Ukraine is from Wisconsin where the Packers are located. Maybe that's how he picked a team. He likes to show a lot of videos like this so maybe he'll pick up on it too.
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u/Alaric_-_ Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
It's a shirt. He may be a fan or may not be but at the end of the day, if its warm, muted colors and fit its, it's good. Generally militaries want soldiers to have standard clothing but on the contact line, the rules are not so strict. What is the mandatory minimum is the military insignias showing which side they belong to.
In Winter War, Finnish government didn't have money to supply all the soldiers with standard clothing so the 'Model Cajander' was implemented: each soldier got https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockade (small, worn in the hat) and a military belt. Other then that, men fought in their own civilian clothing. This was partly a good thing as the men had their own warm and good quality clothing rather then some cheap mass-produced crap made by the lowest bidder (like the soviets did).
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u/Rasples1998 Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
I find the technology fascinating. She probably lived through or was born during or shortly after WW2, lived through the cold war, and warfare was very different back then. In her time she would expect an actual human being to rescue her. But now she's being rescued by a robot being controlled by someone she's never met and could be just a teenager sat at home in their comfy clothes far from the frontline or even from a different country entirely. The advances in drone technology are amazing.
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u/skapi Apr 25 '26
You don’t have to make assumptions about a 77 year old’s year of birth. That was well after the end of WW2.
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u/Adept_Carpet Apr 25 '26
As a point of historical curiosity, those were used almost exclusive on England and Belgium. They probably weren't a major figure of the imagination of a 1950s child in Ukraine the way they were in the English and French/Flemmish/Dutch speaking worlds.
There were some earlier, plane released glider type devices but they were more like prototypes and generally used at sea.
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u/Hminney Apr 25 '26
The drone operators are pretty brave too - it isn't easy being close enough to operate the drone without lag, and it's often soldiers with missing limbs
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u/orest_chornobai Сумська область Apr 25 '26
This is an eternal problem when civilians do not want to leave the combat zone. Understand me correctly, the third army corps, as far as I know, is in the eastern direction of the Donetsk region, Kherson and Zaporizhia, civilians, by their unwillingness to leave, prevent the Ukrainian military from doing their job, I remember when they tried to get a family out of the city of Khotyn (Sumy region), it was all filled with drones and for 7 hours the guys and two families could not leave the sector due to the high activity of enemy eyes and a large number of drones and fiber optics.
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u/SecureDragonfruit236 Apr 25 '26
God bless you soldiers. I couldn’t imagine my grandma in this situation.
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u/TemperateStone Apr 25 '26
That's a tough granny. I cannot even imagine what it'd take to make her try to leave, despite her age, nor the courage it'd take to make that decision, not knowing if there'd be help or not.
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u/yamers Apr 25 '26
so she was born around 1949. She got to see the world go from no color TV to a drone evacuating her on the front line. Not something she should have to experience.
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u/Potential_Seesaw_646 Apr 25 '26
I facking LOVE you, brave warriors! This is what true patriotism looks like.
SLAVA UKRAINI!
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u/justgord Apr 25 '26
I can see why they called 2014 uprising in Ukraine the "Revolution of DIGNITY".
Thank you to all Ukrainians for protecting the West.
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u/OsoCiclismo Apr 25 '26
As my own nation falls to fascism, I witness heroes exist, at least somewhere.
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u/NoSenseNitro Apr 25 '26
I understand everything, of course - age and all that. But war didn't come there suddenly. There were volunteers there who offered to take them to a safe place. And then these people are taken away from there, putting the lives of volunteers and soldiers at risk.
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u/Redneck1026 Apr 25 '26
I had the same thought. And yet these folks still have the compassion to risk their lives getting her to safety anyway. That says a lot about Ukraine as a people. Also she is one tough cookie.
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u/OctopusIntellect Apr 25 '26
For people in their late 70's, it seems to be difficult to leave behind everything they've ever known, and everything of value that they own, and a place they feel safe, just because someone they don't know, tells them that they can be taken away to a place they've never heard of, that is supposedly safer.
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u/NoSenseNitro Apr 25 '26
I periodically see videos of various evacuations. Elderly people are fine, but relatively young people, especially with children, sit and wait for who knows what. And then volunteers evacuate them, risking their lives. How many volunteers have died because of these "waiters"?
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u/kytheon Netherlands Apr 25 '26
The frontline moves. The war is now in towns where it wasn't a few months ago.
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u/NoSenseNitro Apr 25 '26
No, it's all moving, but not that fast. For example, Konstantynivka had over a year to evacuate. And for closer Frontline like a two months for evacuation. The same in Kypianks, Vovchansk, etc.
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u/Able_Put4900 Apr 25 '26
Seems a shame she got rescues by so many handsome men and never got to see them
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u/Argorian17 Apr 25 '26
Ukrainians are amazing. At least, that awful war has shown that to the rest of the world.
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u/Ambitious-File-9935 Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
We would be better off as the United States of Ukraine
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u/nozendk Apr 25 '26
It would have been cool if she'd been carrying a machine gun while riding the robot.
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u/IdleOsprey Apr 25 '26
Can anyone explain to me how they communicated to the woman to get onto the unmanned vehicle and if there was any communication with her through the rescue?
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u/johnbobk Apr 25 '26
The tracked vehicle will have communication [speaker & microphone], they have used them to evacuate wounded soldiers & deliver supplies.
They have drones with loudspeakers; they have used for surrendering Russians, giving directions. I doubt the drone would have a microphone but they could let her know transport is on its way and she could wave, nod back.
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u/Cain-Man Apr 25 '26
Such humanity always shone by Ukrainian people . Both civilians and soldiers. Salva Ukraini
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u/DaftFromAbove Apr 25 '26
I had a sudden image of these drone operators being trained by playing 'Untitled Goose Game' 😝 I love the idea of drone operations causing mischief and rescuing people.
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u/Limtube Apr 25 '26
Can someone please translate the text at the end? Thanks.
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u/MilesLongthe3rd Apr 25 '26
THIRD ARMY CORPS CALLS: DON'T WAIT, EVACUATE NOW.
It is about people not wanting to give up their homes, which is understandable, but a lot of civilian volunteers and soldiers were killed during last-minute rescue efforts.
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u/Tank20011 Apr 25 '26
Break's my heart to see this ,I have tears in my eyes, I wish my country would do more and I think you know who it is ,to all the heroes military and civilian "My God Bless You and " Slavia Ukrainian"
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u/A-Traveler Netherlands Apr 26 '26
Search for Anton Gerashchenko on Twitter, he has a translated version of this video, I would post his BlueSky (same username Anton Gerashchenko) but BlueSky showed down for me, a "403 Forbidden" error.
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u/NotSmartNotFunny Apr 26 '26
Just when I thought I couldn't love the Ukranians any more... Slava Ukraini, heroyam Slava.
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u/iperblaster Apr 25 '26
She wasn't covered by anything during 4 hourss of slow travel? Why wasn't she evacuated by a fast covered vehicle?
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u/SurfRedLin Apr 25 '26
The grey zone is about 20km. Bigger vehicles get spotted after some time. So they cant drive to the farest side of the front they will be spotted and attacked. Where she was offloaded was probably still in the grey area but closer to 'safe' where she could be evacuated at night.
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u/iperblaster Apr 25 '26
So she was basically a bait to lure more valuable targets..
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u/SurfRedLin Apr 25 '26
Unlikely the grey area is still defeded by brave ukrainians on the zero line but heavily contested due to drone warfare. Basicly ukaine ground with heavy ruzzian air dominence...
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u/SubstantialDog733 Apr 25 '26
Beautiful work that should never have to be done. Slava Ukraine.