Forbes: Ukrainian robot fixes razor wire damaged by doomed Russian tank with dead crew inside

Ukrainian forces successfully deployed an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) to rapidly repair defensive barriers breached during a Russian tank assault near Pokrovsk, Forbes reports.

“Many Ukrainian brigades deploy radio-controlled UGVs for the riskiest engineering tasks,” war correspondent David Axe writes.

Following Thursday’s armored attack that saw a damaged Russian T-90M tank with its crew likely dead smash through a razor-wire defensive line before grinding to a halt, Ukrainian military engineers responded with a technological solution – sending in a robot to restore the critical barrier rather than risking personnel.

“The assault was unnecessary confirmation of the offensive weakness of the Russians,” noted a Ukrainian blogger Oficer+, monitoring the situation.

Drone footage captured the morning after the attack revealed fresh razor wire had been laid around the disabled Russian tank, effectively resealing the defensive line. Special Kherson Cat, a blogger from southern Ukraine, identified the likely use of a Ukrainian unmanned ground vehicle to perform the dangerous repair operation.

Unequal Battle T-90M Breakthrough vs Barbed Wire.

The tank got tangled in a wire fence, dragged it a dozen meters and stopped. And it looks like overnight, ground drones quickly deployed new barbed wire around the tank to cover a potentially vulnerable spot. pic.twitter.com/DPKje2ZNoX— Special Kherson Cat