UKRAINE, Aug. 17 — The commander of assault company Code 9.2, Vladyslav Polskyi, personally evacuated two severely wounded soldiers in one of the directions in Kharkiv region, reported the group of forces responsible for Kharkiv oblast and the head of Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov.
The military said that, after two soldiers from Code 9.2 went on a combat mission and completed it, overtaking Russian positions, they were attacked by Russian Molniya drones. Both got heavily injured and couldn’t move by themselves.
The company sent a ground drone to evacuate them, but Russian troops hit it too. The soldiers were left in the open, unable to get to safety on their own.
“While at the observation post, people were hurriedly looking for a solution, our air reconnaissance saw a civilian pickup truck on the road, racing at crazy speed right to the impact zone,” the military said.
Commander Vladyslav Polskyi, who was behind the wheel, reached the dangerous area, got the injured soldiers to the pickup on his own, and then got them to the shelter.
Code 9.2 is a drone assault unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that was formed as a reconnaissance platoon in the 92nd separate assault brigade and grew to become the 475th separate assault regiment. Code 9.2 participated in the liberation of Kharkiv oblast in the autumn of 2022 and operations in Luhansk oblast during the Kharkiv counteroffensive.
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