Ukraine airlifts wounded soldier with heavy drone

Ukraine's 92nd Separate Assault Brigade carried out the first drone air evacuation of a wounded soldier on the eastern Kharkiv front, according to a report on the Hacker News front page on October 20. The soldier, an infantryman with the call sign "Kostya" who weighs 80 kg, was lifted by a heavy bomber drone. The drone carried him 18 km to safety. The report calls this the first drone air evacuation of a wounded soldier in the history of war. The report provided gives no further details on what followed.

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