06 May 2026 – Sunflower Scotland donated land drone Targun-200 to Khartiya and a Vauxhall Vivaro van, for evacuation of the wounded.
It takes six persons to drag one injured man. Because of the Russian drones hunting day and night, sending people for evacuation becomes a suicide mission.
Ukraine is now actively using land drones for evacuation. Instead of risking people’s lives, radio-controlled machines carry the wounded away from danger. A typical land drone has four or six off-road wheels powered by electric motors. It can drive hundreds of kilograms of weight over ten miles or more, depending on the model.
Sometimes, these land drones are even used to evacuate civilians trapped near the front line. Here’s a video of an elderly Ukrainian woman being evacuated one a land drone.
Request from Khartiya
Khartiya, one of the most respected brigades in Ukraine, reached out to Sunflower Scotland and asked for help with an evacuation land drone. Fighting around Kharkiv is very intense. The Russians are harassing the city, terrorising the people with daily drone attacks. Khartiya is defending Kharkiv from the north (the Lyptsy direction) and the east (the Kupyansk direction).
Sunflower responded to the call. Oleg, Sunflower’s chairman, reached out to a kind and generous donor. Having served in the British Army, she knew first hand the challenges that Ukraine was facing, and provided the bulk of the required funds. We are really grateful to all our donors: they contributed more funds, and we were able to fully fund the project.
Oleg ordered Targun-200: a land drone fully designed and manufactured in Ukraine. This model leverages all the hard-earned experience that Ukraine has accumulated: Targun is capable of carrying a substantial weight of 200 kg over 13 miles. And it can do it at a considerable speed – we were astonished by how fast it was. This capacity is more than sufficient to evacuate a wounded person.
Stevie and Oleg picked the drone from a secret location in Ukraine, and delivered it to Kharkiv. There, we met with the representatives of Khartiya, and donated the drone.
After unloading the drone, we donated the Vauxhall Vivaro van which we used to bring the drone.
Multi-stage approach
This is how we executed this operation. It’s an example of how we always think, combine and leverage our limited resources for maximum benefit.
First, we bought a Vauxhall Vivaro van in Edinburgh, and loaded it with wheelchairs and crutches donated by AUGB Ukrainian Cultural Centre in Edinburgh, as well as incontinence products from St Columba’s Hospice.
After that, our team drove the van to Kherson, and donated the wheelchairs to the social taxi service for people with mobility issues. We donated the adult nappies to the Kherson Regional hospital.
Having emptied the van, we drove to an undisclosed location in Ukraine, and picked up the Targun drone.
Finally, we drove to Kharkiv, where we donated the drone and the van to Khartiya.
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