Ukraine Has Found A Way To Rescue The Wounded From The Most Dangerous Areas Of The Front Lines

MAUL armored robots are operating on the front lines.

The Ukrainian military is using ground robots to evacuate the wounded from sections of the front line where it is now virtually impossible to send a conventional ambulance. The unmanned vehicles, known as MAUL, travel along mined roads and through areas under constant attack by Russian drones, delivering soldiers to medical personnel, according to The Atlantic.

These vehicles are equipped with drone defense systems and armored capsules capable of transporting the wounded. Russian operators quickly realized their significance and began deliberately targeting the robots during evacuations.

One of the first such incidents occurred in February 2025 near Kupiansk. Three Ukrainian soldiers found themselves cut off from their units and sustained serious injuries. Several evacuation attempts failed.

The company Burevii then urgently modified the Ardal ground drone for the rescue operation. The first drone hit a mine, but 48 hours later, a second robot managed to reach the soldiers and transport them out of the danger zone.

“We tried everything,” recalled Ksenia Vinogradova, a veteran of the 154th Mechanized Brigade .

Modern warfare has turned the space between positions into a “death zone” stretching for many kilometers, where any vehicle or person can become a target for a drone. Therefore, Ukrainian medics were forced to change their entire approach to evacuation.

The ePoints system assigns a score of over 70 points to the rescue of a wounded soldier, whereas a routine supply delivery earns only two or three. In practice, saving a single soldier’s life may require the involvement of dozens of people—robot operators, medics, pilots of reconnaissance and strike drones, and electronic warfare specialists.

“The robot carried me, but people saved me. So many people—just for me,” said Ukrainian soldier Pavel.
“On average, two MAULs are lost for every five lives saved. For the military, this is an acceptable price—a robot can be replaced, but a person cannot,” the authors write.

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