Biker Steps In to Save Disabled Ukrainian Combat Robot Near the Front Line, Video

A civilian in the front-line town of Kostyantynivka unexpectedly came to the aid of Ukrainian soldiers after their ground robot lost a track, the chief sergeant of the 4th Separate Heavy Mechanized Brigade’s UAV company, Volodymyr Illiushchenko, Ukrainian channel Army TV on October 16.

Footage released by the channel shows a man on a bicycle stopping next to the disabled robot and immediately getting to work.

“We were making a delivery to our mortar crews, and on the way back, the ground robotic complex had a small technical issue—the track snapped. Just then, a local man riding by on a bicycle decided to help,” Illiushchenko said.

Thanks to the man’s quick thinking, the machine was able to move to a safer area, where an evacuation team later recovered it for repairs.

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