Ukraine's soldiers face a deadly drone trap.

Hello, I'm Jan Szerewniński and this is Military Mind. Armed conflicts, defense and security, land, sea and air. We've got you covered. Overnight, into the 20th of October, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 165 drones, damaging multiple civilian facilities across the country. In the Kyiv region, three people were killed and six others were wounded in a Russian strike targeting a production and warehouse facility. In Izyum, residential areas and civilian infrastructure came under attack, leaving five people wounded. Homes and vehicles were damaged in the process. On the morning of the 20th of October, Russia also attacked Dnipro and its suburbs. According to Oleksandr Hanza, the head of the regional military administration, the attack sparked a fire and left three people injured. Meanwhile, in Russia, Ukrainian drones attacked the Tambov region. According to preliminary reports, the strike targeted infrastructure belonging to the Druzhba oil pipeline. Ukrainian drones had previously struck the same facility at least twice during the summer of 2025. On the front line now, Russian forces have still failed to establish control over Kostiantynivka, although infiltrating Russian troops have been spotted in almost every district of the city. Russian forces are attempting to capture Ukraine's Kostiantynivka and the entire defensive sector around it while simultaneously advancing towards Druzhkivka and Kramatorsk. Intense fighting continues both inside Kostiantynivka and along its flanks. To the north, Russian troops are attempting to cut the road connecting Kostiantynivka and Druzhkivka. Over the past two months, Russian forces have advanced up to eight kilometers, significantly extending their encirclement of Kostiantynivka. At the same time, Ukrainian forces have so far managed to hold back the Russian advance towards Kramatorsk. The situation in this sector will largely depend on how long Ukrainian troops can sustain the defence of Kostiantynivka. In the Kostiantynivka sector, a crew from the Phoenix unit of Ukraine's State Border Guard service successfully broke through an extremely dangerous section of a frontline road. The route was heavily patrolled by Russian aerial reconnaissance and attack assets, but the Ukrainian military, led by an experienced pilot with the callsign Multik, confidently overcame the threat. While travelling along the route, the border guards encountered several Russian UAVs that were lying in wait to ambush Ukrainian vehicles. Thanks to the crew's quick reaction and high level of skill, the soldiers managed to shoot down one Russian drone in mid-air and detect and neutralize an insidious FPV ambush set by the occupiers, thereby saving their equipment and their own lives. In the course of Operation Vivaldi, Ukrainian soldiers deployed modified ground-based robotic systems equipped with automatic grenade launchers. The engagement took place east of the village of Shandryholove in the Donetsk region. The robotic platforms were deployed to firing positions to precisely target Russian infantry and neutralize the camouflaged firing positions, ensuring complete fire superiority without putting the lives of Ukrainian assault troops at risk. Now let's face it, Ukrainians are true pioneers when it comes to unmanned systems. First there were the drones, later on the interceptor drones, designed as a countermeasure against Russian attacks. But in parallel to that, the battle was also being waged on the ground with unmanned ground vehicles, UGVs, just like this one. And initially you had vehicles being used for evac, for reconnaissance, but later on weapon systems are also gradually being adapted to fit in with the architecture of these drones. And this is how Ukraine is actually addressing the question of manpower shortages. Russia may actually have many, many more people who might be drafted into the army, but then Ukraine has the technological advantage, and it has a private sector which can develop these solutions, as opposed to Russia basically favoring this sort of top-down, centralized system, whereby you don't really have that much space for innovation. And with this, Ukraine is fighting back. It is actually making advances into the future of warfare. And this theme, actually, we'll be carrying on with in our next video. Let's close today's episode with a historic first in global military practice and a monumental breakthrough in frontline medical evacuation tactics. For the first time in history, the Ukrainian military has successfully conducted an air evacuation of a wounded soldier using a heavy unmanned aerial vehicle manufactured by Gurzuf Defense. Organizing a conventional ground evacuation in this particular area was completely impossible, and that was due to the extensive mining of the approaches and the high activity of Russian attack UAVs. Thanks to the heavy drone's high payload capacity and reliability, the wounded Ukrainian soldier was quickly lifted into the air and evacuated to a safe zone. The rescued soldier is currently under medical supervision and, according to reports, is recovering well. We kept in touch with him, helped him with medicines and provisions. The hero undoubtedly came to this place, I don't know how I would describe myself, feeling and seeing such a car that flew after him. Truly amazing stuff there. Now these drones were originally used to carry a heavy payload of a different kind. specifically explosives to attack Russian positions and eliminate them in large quantities but this adaptation actually might bring this innovation even beyond the military I mean imagine having these drones at hand in a situation where you have a fire in a large building and you cannot simply take people out because evacuation routes have been blocked and you don't have enough helicopters or you don't have any at all but you can send these drones and if people are actually educated in the way in which they are supposed to you know attach all the harnesses make sure that they are safe before the drone takes off you can actually have a massive boost in civilian applications for these very drones something that Ukraine can actually once again you know pioneer following the end of the conflict a very valuable lesson people might be raving on about a Tesla leaping into the air like Super Mario, but it is with these drones that can actually save human lives, that true innovation is actually taking leaps and bounds into the future. And with this, we end this episode of Military Mind. Next deployment at the same time tomorrow, and in the meantime, please stay with us here on TVP World.