A 15-year-old is being hailed as a hero in Ukraine, known to the public as 'Drone Boy,' after he helped a crucial Ukrainian military operation using his drone.
in the country and living as refugees abroad are in need of humanitarian aid.
Andrii was asked to use his drone to spy on advancing Russian vehicles in Makariv, a village near his own village of Kolonschyna, in the outskirts of Kiev."There were fuel trucks, tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers," he said. "I tracked them on a drone, they were in my picture. And then I opened the tab with the map on the drone and put a mark on it and the coordinates appeared there.
"Yuri organized a green corridor for us - a convoy," he said. "We went through this field to the Zhytomyr highway that had already been liberated by that time."
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