A Canadian-made armored vehicle from the Roshel company withstood a direct hit from a Russian FPV drone, saving the lives of Ukrainian soldiers.
Since 2022, Roshel has delivered at least 1,700 Senator vehicles to Ukraine’s Defense Forces. In 2025, the company launched joint production in Ukraine, investing tens of millions of dollars in local manufacturing. Senator vehicles are built with mine explosion protection and can withstand side blasts up to 25 kg of TNT. Each vehicle seats 10–12 soldiers and is actively used for troop transport.
The National Guard’s Special Purpose Center OMEGA has released video footage from a soldier’s body camera capturing the aftermath of the strike. According to the report, the drone attacked the soldiers as they were heading to carry out a combat mission.
“The entire team was at the epicenter of the explosion. Fortunately, all of the special forces soldiers survived. After a successful evacuation, fighters from the 5th Special Purpose Detachment ‘OMEGA’ completed their mission,” the National Guard states.
The unit added that these images should serve as a reminder of the extreme conditions Ukrainian special forces face daily on the frontline.
Earlier, Ukrainian forces launched a successful maritime drone strike, destroying a high-value Russian Nebo-M radar complex near the village of Mayak on northwestern Crimea’s Tarkhankut Cape.
This marked the first known instance of Ukrainian naval drones deploying munition-carrying quadcopters mid-mission, expanding the offensive utility of these platforms beyond carrying FPV kamikaze drones.