Victor Pavlov showed off Ukraine’s newest and most versatile weapon: a battery-powered land robot.
The unmanned ground vehicles come in various shapes and sizes. One runs on caterpillar tracks and resembles a roofless milk float. Another has wheels and antennas. A third carries anti-tank mines. Since spring 2024 their use has grown exponentially.
“This is what modern warfare looks like. Armies everywhere will have to robotise,” said Pavlov, a lieutenant with Ukraine’s 3rd army corps.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now in its fifth year and the conflict – Europe’s biggest since 1945 – has seen an astonishing transformation of battlefield weapons and tactics. The war has become a technological contest, fought not with expensive tanks but with cheap and expendable drones that can deliver bombs with deadly accuracy.
Ukraine’s drone expertise is now highly sought after amid the US-Israeli war against Iran. Last week Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed 10-year defence agreements with several Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to provide them with low-cost Ukrainian interceptors. They can shoot down long-range kamikaze Shahed drones, used by Tehran in its attacks on its neighbours, and by Moscow.
That’s also why Ukraine got invaded and why Cuba got sanctioned to death - because they gave up their nuclear armament. That’s why they call it a nuclear deterrent.
What you’re suggesting is that Ukrainians should stop developing these drones and robots so that Russia can get ahead of them, which will lead to even more civilians dying - because Russia sends drones to destroy apartment complexes, hospitals, schools, and civilian infrastructure all the time - because Russia is a terrorist state. Heck, Russia kills their own soldiers on the battlefield once said soldiers are deemed expendable - all for their glorious emperor Putin.
Your type of thinking is inherently defeatist and would bring about the fall of Ukraine. You’re not against war. You’re for successful invasion and takeover of entire nation States. You’re in effect an enabler. You’re against people, cultures and countries protecting themselves from invaders, fascists and imperialists. You live in a fantasy world predicated upon your feelings.
Either that, or you’re a Russian sympathizer and collaborator. I’d rather give you the benefit of the doubt and call you ignorant and blind to the realities of the world.
Again: imperialism isn’t dead and one wonders if it ever will be. In any case, the promise of modernity must be kept - of no more shifting borders - be it through treaties or a defense industrial complex.
And also, the US is nuts. They’d gladly let Russia take Lithuania, Poland and Finland. Europe sees this and we’re not here to be a footnote in the history book of whatever conqueror gets to rewrite it.
Everything in this paragraph also applies to Ukraine. Stop pretending their war crimes don’t exist, and if you believe they don’t, expand your media consumption so you actually see truthful reporting.
The rest of your fearmongering brainwashed nonsense shows you have no objective media consumption. You are fully subject to whatever your corporate owners want you to believe, and you happily believe it.
Here’s a hint: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST, AND PEOPLE DO NOT DO THINGS JUST TO BE EVIL.
Why is Russia invading Ukraine?
Why does the entirety of the corporate world back Ukraine?
Why is the fact Ukraine has been sending children to die in the front lines against their and their parent’s will just not come up in these discussions?
Why do none of you people question anything your governments tell you?
I get it, you’ve been brainwashed for decades that Russia is magically Nazi Germany (despite their government and economy just being the United States’) and that they want to exterminate all [[insert whoever is getting a new starbucks here]]. And they’re bad, but they’re no worse than the US. They’re no worse than Hungary. They’re no worse than Turkey. They’re no worse than Ukraine or Israel.
They’re all the same flavor of fascist. This is just fascist infighting to see which fascist gets monetary control of land. Not people, the people don’t enter into the equation. Ukraine doesn’t have a people anymore, an entire generation exterminated because death was better than paying taxes to Putin.
Good and evil are indeed social constructs, but stupid isn’t.
I pay deep attention to the war in Ukraine, their actions in Russia and vice versa. What you are posing is a false equivalency. Ukraine may target petroleum infrastructure, but does not target hospitals, schools or indeed apartment complexes - whereas Russia does it all the time to break the Ukrainian spirit. This is all open source intelligence and has been verified conclusively all across the world. There’s no such thing as a private war in 2026.
The motives are clear. Ukraine is fighting for it’s right to exist, for it’s people not to be genocided by Russians, for it’s language and culture to be preserved from an opposing fascist imperialist power. Russia wants to take over, to subjugate and control the entirety of Ukraine, all at once - or bits and pieces, and they’ll use all the automated weaponry they can gather to do so.
Therefore what you want is for Ukraine to be trodden down to meet with your ideological fancies - in effect enabling and even justifying said fascist imperialist power - by telling Ukraine and even Europe to lay down it’s arms, throw our hands up and give in to to a fascist dictatorship that would have you and your ideals sent to the gulag.
It’s quite possible that you’re just another Russia bot, like the various parties and shills across Europe who “just want peace”, when what they really want is to cut off all support from Ukraine so that Russia can steamroll them - so they have earned the salary given to them by the Kremlin.
But let’s say you’re just anti war to the core, against any and all military power. Why don’t you go to Putin and Russia first? Why not go to the Iranians, the Chinese or even the Americans with your demands? Do you think they’ll just cancel all development, all production and manufacturing, that all engines will cease?
Nuts! You’re an ostrich, sir. You care not for the safety, security and freedom of Europeans. You’d have Russia go into Poland, Lithuania and Finland to lay claim to these countries, to destroy their way of life, to subjugate them via russifiafication, that their history, language and culture be expunged to be yet another “republic”, yet another colony and vassal state to a fascist empire.
That will be the success they need to go even further. They even want to march through Berlin, as they said at the beginning of the war. You cannot reason with fascists or imperialists. At a point there’s nothing doing but to raise arms and fight for your freedoms - because if they take over, just look at what they’re doing to Russians currently. It’ll be a thousand times worse the further away it is optically from the Kremlin.
You’re not fighting fascism. You’re an enabler, a facilitator, a supporter of fascism. Either this kind of technology is widespread, standardized and decentralized, or one party holds all the cards - which will lead to more imperialism and fascism, more death, more genocide.
PANDORAS BOX CANNOT BE CLOSED.
3 day old account spreading Russian propaganda, how original
That’s the brainwashing I’m talking about. Nothing I’ve said is propaganda, and nothing I’ve stated is being stated by Russia.
You people are as bad as zionists, anything that even suggests your holy land might not be heaven incarnate and your brain shuts down.