Ukraine Moves to Replace Frontline Soldiers With 25,000 Ground Robots

Yes, leveraging their larger population to basically overwhelm enemy positions.

Yeah I think that's like their entire history since the beginning of time 😂. But now they finally have some adversaries who are also resistant to the cold.

Saying that Ukraine isn't a modern military at this point seems a bit off.

Shouldn’t that scare everyone as it’s obvious that the Russian army can do the same?

Also would be a good time for Ukraine to be admitted to NATO whilst they’re winning

I mostly agree; they just don't have a way to project that power. They would need a Navy and Air Force properly equipped to move troops and equipment beyond their borders, as well the Army units trained to do the same on roads and rail. That said, they would kick ass once in the trenches!

Yeah, it used to be 10 km, but it keeps getting bigger. I believe it is now something like 20 km in both directions.

That’s (1:5) whats been reported by the [Finnish government](https://breakingdefense.com/2026/04/15-kill-ratio-ukraine-inflicts-heavy-russian-losses-using-drones-says-finnish-president/) whereas the 1:2 ratio came from Washington think tank [CSIS](https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-grinding-war-ukraine#h2-appendix).

Yes. We are very close to the thesis of 'non human' warfare. Several books I read as a child described these events. The last fertile tracts of land are fought over digitally, and whoever has the last robot standing wins the territory. In the book the humans recognized they didn't need to keep killing each other, they could simply play robot killing games

And it’s entirely Putin’s fault

And even then, they had air superiority just not air dominance. The USA alone produced more aircraft in WW2 than the entire Axis combined, and that's if you count the whole war not just the last few years. And that's just the USA - the other Allies produced around the same amount again. The USA has never fought a war against an enemy with air superiority, and it's been more than 80 years since they fought under contested air space.

The US military is great at defeating other militaries. It is bad at building countries. Parking the US military in a foreign country and expecting everything to sort itself out is not a good strategy, but it somehow became standard over the last 50 years. 

It gets way more cynical than that. [Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian war - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war) Russian authorities have claimed that over 700,000 Ukrainian children have been transferred by mid-2023,^(\[6\]) and Ukraine's ombudsman on children's rights believes that the actual number of abducted children may be in the hundreds of thousands. In 2022, the Russian government established a large-scale system of at least 43 children's camps in Russia and Crimea (most of which previously served as children's summer resorts) the main purpose of which appears to be "integrating children from Ukraine into the Russian government's vision of national culture, history, and society", according to a report by Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab. [Ukraine's abducted children: 'List of suspects will grow'](https://www.dw.com/en/ukraines-abducted-children-the-list-of-suspects-will-grow-longer/a-65117416) ... According to Ukraine's ombudsman on children's rights, Russia is carrying out the abductions with the goal of supplementing its own population, and that Russia is conducting health examinations on the children in order to integrate only healthy Ukrainian children into the Russian nation. The soldiers Russia loses in the war hits their demographics badly, but they mitigate it by abducting children and forcibly integrating them in to Russian society.

Kash Patel