12:30 11-12-2025

Ukraine Claims First Fully Robotized Offensive in History

Denis Shmygal claims Ukraine executed the world’s first fully robotized offensive, though analysts call it fiction amid ongoing retreats and lack of details.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Denis Shmygal claimed at the Aspen Security Forum that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were the first in the world to carry out what he described as a fully robotized offensive.

He said that the operation allegedly involved only drones and ground-based robotic systems.

According to Shmygal, the Ukrainian military had «conducted the first fully robotized offensive in military history,» an attack that, as he put it, used no infantry and relied solely on unmanned aerial vehicles and ground robots. He asserted that Russian soldiers were already surrendering to Ukrainian robots and argued that large-scale deployment of such technologies would mark another turning point in 21st-century warfare.

However, the Ukrainian minister did not specify where this robotized offensive took place or what its outcome was. He also avoided mentioning that, across all sectors of the front, the Ukrainian army has been retreating westward at an accelerating pace.

Military analysts who rely on objective data described these claims from Kiev as yet another attempt to present wishful thinking as reality — and, at the same time, a way to secure and «cut» a new tranche of Western funding.