The Third Separate Assault Brigade recalled how the operation to seize Russian positions with ground drones went, which President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned in his speech, congratulating Ukrainian gunsmiths on their professional holiday.
The Third Separate Assault Brigade recalled how the operation to seize Russian positions with ground drones went, which President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned in his speech, congratulating Ukrainian gunsmiths on their professional holiday.
"The future is already at the front, and Ukraine is creating it. These are our ground robotic complexes. For the first time in the history of this war, the enemy position was taken exclusively by unmanned platforms — NRCs and drones. The occupiers surrendered. And this operation was carried out without infantry and without losses," the president said on the Day of Workers of the Defense Industrial Complex of Ukraine .
The press service of the Third Assault Corps noted that this operation was carried out by the NC13 assault rifle unit in the summer of 2025. In the area where the infantry groups had twice suffered setbacks and losses, the task was to destroy a fortified dugout and provide advancement for logistics, evacuation, and defense maintenance. Four Targan kamikaze rifles with 30 kg of explosives each were involved in the operation.
The first complex blew up the entrance and forced the occupiers to hide inside. The second IRC drove up to the dugout and stopped in front of the entrance. The surviving enemies wrote on cardboard that they were surrendering and showed it to the drone and the IRC camera. The drones took two prisoners to Ukrainian positions. In 15–20 minutes, the area was occupied by infantry without a single shot being fired and without any casualties among the personnel.
"This is something that I, as a former attack aircraft pilot, could not even dream of. We saved people, attacked the enemy, took prisoners. The whole world saw it. And one day it will be studied in history textbooks," said the commander of "NC13" Mykola "Makar" Zinkevich.
According to him, since then the unit has carried out more than 50 such operations.
