Seeing two wounded fighters stranded on the battlefield – one of them still strapped to a land drone immobilized by a Russian strike – Ukrainian commander Vladyslav Polskyi knew he had to do something.
The 29-year-old – a former science teacher who joined the army in 2023 – was watching the soldiers on a screen in his command post around 15 km away.
Between them stretched the “kill zone”, riddled
