92nd Assault Brigade
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Oct 25, 2026
Ryan McBethHOST
Next, Ukraine claims the world's first aerial drone medevac.
Ryan McBethHOST
Ukraine's 92nd Separate Assault Brigade has shared a video of the world's first aerial drone medevac, and it is wild.
Ryan McBethHOST
NBC News quotes the brigade's reason for using a drone to medevac a wounded soldier.
Ryan McBethHOST
Essentially, due to intense enemy drone activity in the presence of landmines, evacuation using conventional unmanned ground vehicles was impossible.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
So here we have a much more positive thing, I guess, a Ukrainian soldier in footage that you can see online in which it is thought to be the world's first drone airlift of a wounded soldier from the front line.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
The 92nd Assault Brigade, a Ukrainian unit, they were essentially mounting this ground rescue mission.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
But this poor guy had been shot.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
He was surrounded by landmines.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
They say it's the world's first drone airlift of a wounded soldier from the front line.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
So this is a Ukrainian unit called the 92nd Assault Brigade.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
They were on a ground rescue mission, but not possible because this soldier had got wounded, surrounded by landmines and overhead a lot of Russian drone activity.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
So they couldn't send in a unit to rescue him because they'd have been prone to.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
They say it's the world's first drone airlift of a wounded soldier from the front line.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
So this is a Ukrainian unit called the 92nd Assault Brigade.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
They were on a ground rescue mission, but not possible because this soldier had got wounded, surrounded by landmines and overhead a lot of Russian drone activity.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
So they couldn't send in a unit to rescue him because they'd have been prone to.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
So here we have a much more positive thing, I guess, a Ukrainian soldier in footage that you can see online in which it is thought to be the world's first drone airlift of a wounded soldier from the front line.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
The 92nd Assault Brigade, a Ukrainian unit, they were essentially mounting this ground rescue mission.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
But this poor guy had been shot.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
He was surrounded by landmines.
George HrabHOST
The rescue required coordination across several Ukrainian units as conventional ground robots could not reach Vlasenko's position amid intense Russian activity and heavily mined terrain.
George HrabHOST
Personnel from the 92nd Assault Brigade, the 30th and 14th Mechanized Brigades and the 10th Army Corps adapted a Gurzuf Defense Hexacopter, originally configured as a bomber, to carry this indestructible bastard to safety and back home.
George HrabHOST
The manufacturer supplied the drone free of charge and specialists modified it to improve stability and tested it at the company's facilities before the mission.
George HrabHOST
The rescue mission was the product of more than six months of preparation, coordinating helicopters, electronic warfare and artillery with the drone team on the ground.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
They actually lifted a wounded person off the battlefield with a drone.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
Ukraine's 92nd Separate Assault Brigade shared the video showing an injured soldier evacuated by drone.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
This is incredible.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
It's been called historic.
Michelle DubéHOST
MEANWHILE A GROUP OF UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS SAYS THIS IS THE FIRST BATTLEFIELD AIR EVACUATION BY A DRONE in history.
Michelle DubéHOST
The 92nd Assault Brigade released video today showing a wounded infantryman lifted to safety by a heavy hexacopter made by a Ukrainian company.
Michelle DubéHOST
The brigade says an evacuation using conventional ground vehicles wasn't possible because of landmines and intense enemy drone activity.
Nathan DownerHOST
In France, authorities set curfews in parts of several cities today, including Paris.
Dominic NichollsHOST
Well, I think it's only a matter of time, but for the first time in history, we've seen a service member, in this case a Ukrainian soldier, evacuated from the front line by aerial drones.
Dominic NichollsHOST
This is Ukraine's 92nd Assault Brigade.
Dominic NichollsHOST
They say they modified a heavy hexacopter to, to carry out their wounded comrade.
Dominic NichollsHOST
So we think that these things can carry up to about 100 kilos.