Drones Above, Robots Below - Inside Operation Vivaldi, Ukraine's push to retake territory in Donetsk Oblast is late summer, and the 3rd Corps and attached units are fully engaged in a counteroffensive in the Lyman sector called Operation Vivaldi. Russian forces are trying to retake Lyman, a city in Donetsk Oblast that Russian officials have claimed control of. Ukrainian infantry on the ground has been telling a different story. For weeks, The operation was conducted under a news blackout until the commander of the 3rd Corps, Brig. Gen. Andrei Biletsky, announced it at the end of September that the corps had recaptured 176 square kilometers. Photo: Diana Delurman / The Kyiv Independent

Drones Above, Robots Below - Inside Operation Vivaldi, Ukraine's push to retake territory in Donetsk Oblast is late summer, and the 3rd Corps and attached units are fully engaged in a counteroffensive in the Lyman sector called Operation Vivaldi. Russian forces are trying to retake Lyman, a city in Donetsk Oblast that Russian officials have claimed control of. Ukrainian infantry on the ground has been telling a different story. For weeks, The operation was conducted under a news blackout until the commander of the 3rd Corps, Brig. Gen. Andrei Biletsky, announced it at the end of September that the corps had recaptured 176 square kilometers. Photo: Diana Delurman / The Kyiv Independent