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City in eastern Ukraine

Geopolitics · Ukraine says world-first drone rescue of wounded soldier near Kharkiv

Ukrainian forces say they carried out the first ever aerial rescue of a wounded soldier using an unmanned drone, lifting an injured infantryman from a heavily mined area on the eastern Kharkiv front. Video released by the United24 fundraising platform shows the man, known by the callsign Kostya, being carried from an area behind enemy lines and flown to safety.