Delivering Electric Bicycles by Drone...Injured Ukrainian Soldier Dramatic Escape
Aug 01, 2025
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British media Daily Mail reported a video released by the Ukrainian National Guard's Rubizh brigade.
The video shows the drone delivering an electric bicycle weighing about 40 kilograms to the wounded soldier.
After receiving the bicycle, the soldier quickly left to escape the Russian army.
He kept his position alone for five days under enemy fire, and his leg was injured, making it difficult to move on his own.
Lieutenant Mykola Hlichenko, a staff member of the Rubiz Brigade, "the enemy was on the front and back and on the sides. It was completely under siege."
The soldier's colleagues made a rescue plan using a large drone capable of carrying heavy cargo.
The drone is usually used to drop bombs, but it can also carry heavy cargo.
However, the rescue process was not smooth. The first drone was shot down by the enemy while trying to deliver a bicycle, and the second crashed due to overheating of the motor.
Lieutenant Hrychenko "It was a life-threatening situation when the rescue team approached it directly. It was also impossible for soldiers to travel to our positions 1.5km away on foot alone", he explained.
Eventually, a third drone successfully delivered an electric bicycle, and the soldier escaped safely on it.
The rescue operation shows that drones can play a variety of roles beyond mere means of attack, ranging from survival, rescue, and strategic disturbance.
Meanwhile, Ukraine recently used drones to paralyze four airports in the Russian capital, Moscow.
Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Benukovo and Zhukovsky airports were all affected, with hundreds of airliners diverting, delayed or cancelled to other airports.
Russia's Defense Ministry claimed to have shot down 93 Ukrainian drones overnight, 19 of which were approaching Moscow.
The Federal Aviation Administration of Russia has closed its airspace twice for the safety of civil aircraft and diverted 134 aircraft to other airports" he said.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
