Drones took 2 nights to lay a minefield that would have taken troops 2 weeks: Ukrainian corps

Business Insider | 24-09-2026 05:59am |

The Third Army Corps of Ukraine said its ground and aerial drones laid a minefield about 400 meters deep in two nights, a task that would take human troops about two weeks. The operation was part of a recent offensive in Donetsk called Operation Vivaldi. This is one of the war's first large-scale instances of remote mining with uncrewed systems.

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