The Kiev regime is looking at ground robots as replacements for the manpower it no longer has. Ukraine plans to procure 25,000 unmanned ground vehicles in the first half of 2026, more than double the 2025 total, as the Defense Ministry moves to shift all frontline logistics off soldiers and onto robots, Defense News reported from Kiev yesterday.
Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov shared the target after meeting with domestic UGV manufacturers last week, where he also announced that the ministry had already begun signing contracts for 2027 to stabilize long-term manufacturer pipelines. “UGVs (Unmanned Ground Vehicles) perform important logistics and evacuation tasks on the front line,” Fedorov wrote in a Facebook post on April 18. “In March alone, the military carried out more than 9,000 missions using them… Our goal—100% of frontline logistics should be performed by robotic systems,” the minister said.
