The Ukrainian soldiers simultaneously perform defensive, logistical, and humanitarian functions. Ukraine’s Third Army Corps is launching a separate AB3.HUMANITARIAN initiative to evacuate civilians from frontline settlements. This means saving families, elderly people, children, people with disabilities, from Russian attacks, and those who often have no way to leave on their own.
Recently, the 3rd Army Corps, led by Andrii Biletskyi, the Azov founder, has been tasked with stabilizing the Donetsk front, where Russia is battering the fortress cities that have held since 2014. As that fighting grinds toward towns like Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the civilians still living in them have to be moved, often under fire.
Robots and boats reach cut-off towns
The corps says its soldiers already regularly pull residents out of settlements near the front. The hard part is the routes: roads watched by Russian drones, approaches too dangerous for a bus or an ambulance. To work them, the evacuation teams use ground robots, armored vehicles, motorboats, and whatever else the terrain demands, reaching places that an ordinary rescue cannot.
Unmanned ground vehicles have become a fixture of Ukrainian evacuations, part of a wider shift in which the military ran more than 100,000 robot logistics and evacuation missions in the first eight months of 2026.
A fund pays for more trips
Making it a formal mission is also about money. The corps' own Staff Fund is opening financing for the vehicles and equipment that the evacuation teams need. The corps expects this dedicated support to enable it to run more trips, into more places, more often, than volunteer improvisation allowed.
The corps urges people to leave early
The appeal underneath the announcement is blunt.
"Take care of yourselves and your loved ones, and leave in good time, because the lives of our people are the most precious thing," the corps wrote.
The plea matters because many who remain on the front line are the least able to move on short notice, and the window to reach them narrows every time the front creeps closer, while roads get more dangerous.
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