Ukraine burned the machine that lays minefields from kilometers away. Fighters of the Asgard battalion within the 412th Nemesis brigade struck a rare Russian Zemledeliye system on the Zaporizhzhia front, the brigade said.
The machine is built on a heavy KamAZ chassis with computerized controls that automatically map the minefields it lays, so losing one is a real blow to the occupation's engineering and logistics capacity.
The mines it scatters are the reason the machine matters. Remote mining is what makes Ukrainian supply routes too dangerous to drive.
Zemledeliye lays mines that keep killing Ukrainian robots
Ukraine has spent 2026 moving its frontline logistics onto ground robots specifically because approaches are mined and drone-hunted. Units near Novopavlivka use ground robots to resupply FPV teams because Russian drone activity and remote mining have made traditional supply routes too dangerous for soldiers. The 5th Assault Brigade lost one of two ground robots crossing mined and debris-strewn ground to reach a Russian position in June.
The Zemledeliye is one of the systems used to seed the ground. Killing it does not clear the mines already laid, but it stops the machine from laying more, and it is far harder for Russia to replace than the mines themselves.
Nemesis has been hunting Russian high-value systems all year
The 412th Nemesis brigade is one of the Unmanned Systems Forces units running Ukraine's deep- and mid-strike campaign against Russian air defense, logistics, and now engineering assets. A single week of Nemesis strikes in January destroyed an estimated $300 million worth of Russian air defense equipment. In April, a Nemesis mid-range drone struck the 9S32M1, a key component of Russia's S-300V air defense system.
The brigade was also among six Ukrainian drone units that hit Russian oil tankers, gas carriers, and a tug in the Black Sea on 15 July, part of the operation isolating occupied Crimea.
