Mykola Bielieskov, senior analyst at Ukraine's Come Back Alive initiative center and expert at the National Institute for Strategic Studies, shared his opinions with Espreso TV."We are holding the front line today precisely thanks to various types of unmanned platforms. They compensated for the lack of people in 2024 and continue to do so now, allowing us to create a kill zone with drones up to 15 km. This guarantees that by the time the enemy reaches the contact line, they have far less strength to consolidate. That’s why we’re holding on with these systems. Can we put more emphasis on technology? Probably yes, but we still need people. A human doesn’t disappear from the battlefield. Someone must still take the risk at the contact line, confirm presence, and form the front line. On the other hand, people are also needed to maintain and operate drones," Bielieskov said.He said that to stabilize the front with technology, Ukraine still needs more people — operators, programmers, technicians for drones, and ammunition makers."I understand the appeal of completely replacing humans with technology. Unfortunately, we won’t eliminate them fully, though tactics are changing. Soldiers at the contact line now mostly confirm presence and enter battle only at the last moment, when there are no other options. This change already exists today, but still, the front line cannot be stabilized only by drones, robotic platforms, or remote strike systems," the analyst noted.He stressed that adapting drone technology and tactics is crucial. FPV drones have already evolved through several stages: first radio-controlled, then countered by trench electronic warfare and screens; next switched to fiber optics, now opposed mainly by nets guarding key routes.In his view, the question of technological and tactical drone adaptation remains crucial. We are learning, there are many stages FPV drones have already gone through. First, they worked on radio control, which was countered with trench electronic warfare and screens. As a result, FPVs switched to fiber optics. And against them, only nets are used now to guard key routes."It’s a constant race, and hard to imagine we’ll ever have one, two, or three technologies without a kinetic or non-kinetic countermeasure. It’s an ongoing race, sometimes the enemy is ahead, sometimes we are, but in the end, both sides get mirror technologies, and neither side gains an advantage," Beleskov summed up.Earlier, Valentyn Badrak, director of the Center for Army Research, Conversion and Disarmament and co-founder of the Consortium for Defense Information, spoke about how Ukrainians fight creatively and surprise the world with innovative solutions.