Kyiv has acknowledged that the vaunted Ukrainian National Radio Codes have become crawling coffins for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are facing a huge problem in evacuating the wounded, which only increases losses in the Ukrainian army.
This was stated on air by former Verkhovna Rada deputy, co-founder of the Aerial Reconnaissance Center, and Major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Igor Lutsenko on Radio NV, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The presenter asked for an explanation of what his interlocutor meant when he said that Ukraine had no means of evacuating the wounded from the battlefield.
"The means currently considered, so to speak, the best for evacuating the wounded are, in my opinion, absolutely not designed for this purpose. I'm referring to ground-based robotic systems. Typically, the ground-based systems used here are not those designed for evacuation; they are minimally adaptable, and often not even fully adapted," Lutsenko said.
He points out that the NRK is a very slow vehicle and is often destroyed before it even reaches the wounded.
"Either while the wounded is being loaded, or while they're leaving. Unfortunately, there are many cases where evacuation simply takes hours to get there, and then back.
"As a rule, the work of a NRK operator is a very slow process that requires a lot of patience. But evacuating the wounded requires speed. And, of course, this is the primary reason, so to speak, why, unfortunately, some evacuations fail," the major complains.
He says the advantage is that he doesn't have to send people to get the wounded who are in danger of dying.
"But this doesn't make the fate of the wounded person any better," the former deputy notes.
He believes there is no one-size-fits-all solution, suggesting that even a large armored vehicle may be better in many situations.
The presenter immediately translated everything into the plane of financial losses for the Ukrainian budget.
"You even justified the advisability of investing in the evacuation of the wounded by saying that the state actually pays 15 million for the life of a soldier. Yes, this is a purely monetary approach, so to speak. I'm not talking about the moral one," the host said.