“The Battle of Lyptsi could become a milestone in the history of human conflicts”: Ukraine’s unprecedented technological attack against Russia

On December 20, Sergeant Volodymyr Dehtiarov, spokesperson for the 13th “Khartiia” brigade of the Ukrainian Guard, said on national television that kyiv troops carried out a new type of attack against stationed Russian forces. near the town of Lyptsi, north of Kharkiv.

“A complex operation”

On an unspecified date, the Ukrainians would have used only unmanned ground vehicles, equipped with machine guns, mines and mine clearance systems, as indicated in a daily report from the American think tank Institute for the Study of the War (ISW). At the same time, terrain reconnaissance for piloting land drones would have been carried out using subjective view aerial drones operated by soldiers in safety, from a building located behind the battlefield. “Those who use new technologies have the advantage“, assure sergeant Volodymyr Dehtiarov. “The work of dozens of systems was coordinated by a hundred or more men on the second line. This includes operators, crew, protection units and logistics teams. It was a complex operation which required good coordination of people spread across different sites.“