Robot with note saying ‘Grandma, hop on!’ saves elderly woman from Russian forces | News World

Ukrainian soldiers saved an elderly woman’s life by asking her to hop on the back of a robot.

The lady, 72, was spotted by an aerial drone walking between dead bodies on a bullet-riddled road near town of Lyman, Ukraine.

Aerial footage shows the unnamed woman leaning on two walking sticks as she makes her way through the region ravaged by Russian fighting.

So fighters from the sixtieth Separate Mechanised Brigade launched a rescue mission using an unmanned ground system unit called Cerberus.

The unit shared a video on social media showing one among the fighters watching the live feed as the lady stumbled.

He says: ‘It looks like shortness of breath or something.’

To avoid scaring her, the servicemen draped a blanket over the bot and left a written message saying: ‘Grandma, hop on!’

Video from the command centre shows the soldiers telling the lady, ‘Come on, come on, that’s it!’ as she climbs on the back of the vehicle.

One adds: ‘Zoom in on its legs, please, we wish to see in the event that they’re catching on the tarmac in order that, God forbid, its tracks don’t get damaged.’

The third Army Corp – which the sixtieth is an element of – wrote on X on Saturday that the lady’s house of 53 years was destroyed by Russian forces.

Three other villagers were evacuated as a part of the four-hour mission.

The corp added on X: ‘Once they reached an armoured vehicle, fighters from the first Mechanised Battalion took them out of the combat zone and transferred to the Angels patronage service from the third Corps.

‘The Third Army Corps urges: evacuate upfront to preserve probably the most precious thing – life.’

As she was taken into the back of the battalion’s truck, one soldier might be heard saying: ‘That’s it, we will all finally breathe… Thank God.’

Lyman sits on the banks of the Siversky Donets River, which has served as a natural division between the Russian and Ukrainian front lines.

There was a tug of war over the ‘Gates of Donbas’ for the reason that Russia-Ukraine conflict ignited in 2022.

As a significant railway hub, the Kremlin seized town in May 2022, just for Ukrainian troops to reclaim it months later.

While town stays under Kyiv, Russian forces burst back into it in December, making it a part of the war’s ‘grey zone’ where control is unclear.

It comes after Ukrainian soldiers evacuated a cat and a dog from the frontline using a robotic aerial vehicle.

Fighters from the 14th Prince Roman the Great Separate Mechanised Brigade were sending supplies to their fellow soldiers by drone.

‘The drone that delivered the supplies returned with some passengers on board – a cat and a dog,’ UAnimals, an animal welfare organisation, said.

The pets, which had travelled some 12km by drone, were later adopted by soldiers.

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