Vepr

Vepr is a Ukrainian tracked ground robot for frontline logistics and casualty evacuation — hauling up to 350 kg of cargo or one to two wounded soldiers roughly 40 km per battery charge — codified for Armed Forces service by the Ministry of Defence in June 2026 after two years of front-line use.

Overview

Vepr (Ukrainian for "wild boar") is a compact tracked unmanned ground vehicle built for the jobs that kill the most infantry on a drone-saturated front: hauling ammunition and supplies to positions, and pulling the wounded out. Ukraine's Ministry of Defence codified the upgraded Vepr for Armed Forces service on June 3, 2026, clearing a platform whose earlier versions had been running front-line logistics and evacuation missions since 2024, per Defense Express and Interfax-Ukraine. Beyond cargo and medevac, the ministry lists remote mine clearance, recovery of damaged vehicles and robots, and use as a one-way strike platform among its roles.

The name is shared by unrelated weapons — Russia's Molot Vepr rifle series, Ukraine's Vepr bullpup rifle, and the smaller Ukrainian Vepryk UGV are all different systems. This entry covers the ground robotic complex (NRK) Vepr.

Development

Vepr is a product of Ukraine's wartime ground-robot boom, but an unusually anonymous one: its developers decline to be named for security reasons. One of them, identified only as "Andriy," told Oboronka the team built its first multifunctional ground drone in November 2022 — among the first at the front — and that early units even served as heated, armored sniper-training targets before one hauled a shot-up Mitsubishi L200 with its crew off the battlefield.

The original Vepr was codified by the Ministry of Defence in July 2024, with several dozen already working the line of contact, according to ArmyInform. Two years of combat feedback then drove a significant redesign, and the modernized version was codified in June 2026, as BattlePolicy reported. Vepr joins roughly 80 domestic ground robots codified since 2022 in an ecosystem the Brave1 defense-tech cluster counts at about 270 manufacturers building 550 UGV models, per Euromaidan Press and the Christian Science Monitor.

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