"Vyshnivskyi, Kyiv's senior representative to the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis Training and Education Centre, an initiative which uses real-time lessons from the conflict to inform Western defense planning, said that soldiers sometimes have to wait for nighttime, fog, or rain - when visibility is difficult - to evacuate their wounded comrades."
"The significant drone presence means that the "battlefield is visible 100%," making it all but impossible for Kyiv's forces to pull off traditional casualty evacuations, Ukrainian Col. Valerii Vyshnivskyi said in an interview, reinforcing warnings about the effect that uncrewed systems have on front-line medical care."
"Movement in the kill zone has become extremely dangerous and has effectively erased the long-held hope of getting wounded troops critical life-saving trauma care within the "golden hour" - the first 60 minutes after a severe injury when medical treatment determines whether a soldier lives or dies."
Drone surveillance has made the battlefield virtually fully visible, severely limiting traditional casualty evacuation methods. Troops frequently must wait for darkness, fog, rain, or artificially created smoke to conceal movement and retrieve wounded. Using smoke grenades increases risk by attracting enemy attention. Persistent uncrewed systems provide both sides with continuous observation and enable precision strikes across a miles-wide kill zone along the front. Movement through this zone is extremely dangerous, removing the ability to deliver life-saving trauma care within the first 60 minutes after severe injury. Front-line medical response and casualty survival rates are therefore substantially degraded.
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