No missiles, no rifles, no bombs. Ukrainian drones are carrying an unprecedented kind of cargo in the war: the elderly

Ukrainian forces used a ground drone near Lyman in Donetsk to evacuate four civilians, including an injured woman, from a contested area.

A separate recent case saw a 77-year-old woman rescued by a drone operated by the 60th Mechanized Brigade.

The examples show military drones increasingly being used for civilian rescue, not just combat, in Ukraine’s war zones.