Russian units are increasingly using electric transport — electric scooters and electric motorcycles — to deliver FPV drones closer to the line of contact. This was reported on August 4 during a stream on Armiya TV by the battle captain of the 1st Battalion of Unmanned Systems “Predators of the Heights” of the 59th Assault Brigade of the Unmanned Systems Forces named after Yakiv Handziuk, Senior Sergeant Roman Pidlubnyi.
According to Roman, the occupiers have adapted electric transport for ammunition logistics serving drone operators.
“We have already seen more than once that the enemy loads FPV drones into large boxes and delivers 5–10 drones at a time to their launch sites,” the serviceman noted.
The reason for choosing electric transport is acoustics.
“Why electric motorcycles specifically? Because they are silent, and you can control the acoustic situation and the environment around you,” Pidlubnyi explained.
According to him, the unit managed to destroy one of the loaded mopeds approximately 8 kilometers from the line of contact — that is, while it was still en route during resupply.
The use of compact electric transport by Russian forces has been recorded since at least 2022 and has been systematically expanding since then. As early as the beginning of the full-scale invasion, modified electric bicycles were used to deliver anti-tank missiles to the front line, Bloomberg reported.
In 2024–2025, Ukrainian units recorded attacks by assault groups on electric scooters near Toretsk. The intelligence chief of the 12th Special Purpose Brigade “Azov,” Lieutenant Colonel Dmytro Pavlenko-Kryzheshevskyi, noted at the time that the use of electric scooters during assaults had become standard practice for the Russians, with attacks often carried out by groups of 150–200 fighters simultaneously.
Analysts note that the mass shift to light electric transport — scooters, mopeds, motorcycles with sidecars — is largely driven not so much by strategic calculation as by a shortage of armored vehicles in Russian assault units: heavy equipment losses are forcing them to compensate with cheap and quiet alternatives.
Both sides exploit the silence of electric transport as a tactical advantage under conditions of total drone surveillance. Ukrainian units, including special operations forces, use the heavier off-road Mosphera electric scooters manufactured by the Latvian company Global Wolf Motors — vehicles with motorcycle tires, a range of up to 300 km, and a top speed of up to 100 km/h. According to company founder Klavs Ashmanis, such scooters are useful for delivering cargo to the front line, conducting reconnaissance in temporarily occupied territory, and evacuating lightly wounded soldiers — precisely because of the near-silent operation of the electric motor.
There have also been cases of drones being used to deliver electric transport to wounded soldiers: the crew of the 4th Battalion “Freedom Force” of the National Guard brigade “Rubizh” near Siverskyi used a heavy multicopter to drop a 40-kilogram electric bicycle to a wounded comrade for self-evacuation after several unsuccessful rescue attempts.
