How a robot rescued an elderly woman from the front lines in Ukraine

Video shared by Ukraine’s Third Army showed an old woman trying to leave a destroyed village being rescued by a robot.

The Ukrainian army used a drone to spot the woman and sent the machine to rescue her.

Drone footage released on Saturday showed a robot approaching the woman with the words “Grandma, sit down.”

Antonina Horuzha told BBC reporter Jessica Parker: “I thought I wouldn’t make it and had no strength.”

Ground-based drones have played a key role in rescuing or resupplying soldiers on the front lines in Ukraine.