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A squad of Ukrainian \u201ckamikaze ground robots\u201d airdropped behind enemy lines have taken out 3,000 Russian soldiers and reclaimed 48 square miles of occupied territory in Donetsk, officials announced.<\/p>\n
The secretive mission, dubbed \u201cOperation Vivaldi,\u201d began in May and wrapped up last week, when the Third Army Corps of the Ukraine\u2019s Armed Forces made details of the feat public.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn historic moment,\u201d it boasted on Telegram Thursday. \u201cThe Third Army Corps has begun a new stage of the war <\/a>with the landing of ground robots.\u201d<\/p>\n The operation recaptured five villages and three settlements in the contested region of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine<\/a>, one of the two provinces that make up the industrial mineral-rich Donbas that tyrant Vladimir Putin wants to seize.<\/p>\n Russia currently occupies about 80% of Donetsk.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re the first in the world to use this tactic \u2014 dropping ground robots,\u201d Gen. Andrii Biletskyi, commander of the Third Army Corps, said on YouTube.<\/p>\n