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There's this unbelievable video I saw recently from the front lines of the war in Ukraine.

In it, you see these three Russian soldiers crawl out of a hiding place, arms up, fear on their faces.

And they walk towards a camera and surrender on the snowy ground.

But they're not surrendering to a Ukrainian soldier, or, in fact, to a soldier of any sort.

They're surrendering to a robot.

It was, according to the Ukrainians, the first time in history that an enemy position was captured solely

by a battlefield robot, without putting a single soldier at risk. And a sign of how Ukraine

has become a leader in the robot wars. For the last few years, Ukraine has been pleading

with the world, asking for help in its fight against Russia.

Now, Ukraine finds other countries asking it for drone and tech help.

From the BBC, I'm Asma Khalid, and today on the global story, inside the robot war revolution that turned Ukraine from needy to needed.

I'm going to be straight up here at the outset. The war and the technology of war is not

something that I am an expert on. But having seen that video, I was struck when I heard the U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll

recently speak in glowing terms about the Ukrainian army.

They have fundamentally altered how humans engage in conflict.

They have done an absolutely amazing job of innovating.

And what struck me more was that he seemed to imply that the U.S. armed forces were actually learning from Ukraine.

We are learning a lot from them and we are changing to a lot of the lessons that they have taught us.

It turns out the U.S. is not the only country being taught a thing or two by Ukraine.

I think we're coming to a point where Europe, the West, the United States, the Gulf states,

they need Ukraine more than Ukraine needs us.

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