安德里·博卡拉萨(Andrii Pokrasa)在乌克兰被誉为英雄，被公众称为“无人机男孩”，此前他使用无人机帮助了一次至关重要的乌克兰军事行动。
15岁的安德里在父亲的帮助下，冒着生命危险，在战争初期向乌克兰军方发送了推进俄罗斯军队的坐标。
持续了六个月的乌克兰战争对儿童产生了尤为残酷的影响。
几乎1000名儿童被杀或受伤在战争期间，联合国儿童基金会估计超过500万乌克兰儿童在该国和在国外生活的难民需要人道主义援助。
“我的母亲一开始非常害怕，”安德里告诉美国广播公司新闻记者布里特·克列特。“但现在她为我们做得好，我们很健康，我们能够提供帮助而感到自豪。
安德里说，他们在当地的一个村民小组中发布了他们有一架无人机，安德里知道如何操作它。安德里告诉ABC新闻，民防部队的一位名叫尤里·卡西亚诺夫的男子回复了他们的帖子，并补充说“他不知道我15岁了。”
安德烈被要求使用他的无人机在基辅郊区靠近他自己的村庄Kolonschyna的一个村庄Makariv侦察前进的俄罗斯车辆。
“有燃料卡车、坦克、大炮、装甲运兵车，”他说。“我用无人机追踪他们，他们在我的照片里。然后我打开无人机上带有地图的标签，在上面做了一个标记，坐标就出现在那里。”
安德里说，他把坐标传给了卡西亚诺夫，后者又传给了乌克兰炮兵。炮兵在几分钟内就消灭了俄罗斯坦克纵队。
他说，他们离与袭击有关的爆炸足够近，以至于他们不得不撤离该地区。
“尤里为我们组织了一条绿色走廊——一个车队，”他说。“我们穿过这片田野，来到当时已经解放的日托米尔公路。”
安德里说，当他讲述自己帮助打败俄罗斯军队的故事时，他的朋友们起初不相信他，但后来他们在电视上看到了他。
“我的朋友们都很高兴，一切都好了，我很好，”他说。“我必须帮忙，因为我能帮忙。”
'Drone Boy' becomes hero in Ukraine after taking out a line of Russian tanks
Andrii Pokrasa 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.
Andrii, 15, helped by his father, put his life in danger and sent the Ukrainian military the coordinates of advancing Russian forces during the early days of the war.
The war in Ukraine, which has raged on for six months, has had a particularly brutal effect on children.
Nearly1,000 children have been killed or injuredduring the war, UNICEF estimates, andmore than 5 million Ukrainian children bothin the country and living as refugees abroad are in need of humanitarian aid.
"My mother was very scared at first," Andrii told ABC News reporter Britt Clennett. "But now she is proud that we did well, that we are healthy and that we were able to help.
15-year-old Andrii Pokrasa speaks with ABC News' Britt Clennett.
ABC News
Andrii said that they posted in a local village group that they had a drone, and that Andrii knew how to operate it. A man named Yuri Kasyanov from the civil defense forces responded to their post, Andrii told ABC News, adding that "he didn't know that I'm 15."
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."
Andrii said he passed the coordinates to Kasyanov, who passed them on to the Ukrainian artillery. The artillery decimated the column of Russian tanks within minutes.
They were near enough to an explosion related to the attack that they had to evacuate the area, he said.
"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."
Andrii said his friends didn't believe him at first when he recounted his story of helping to defeat Russian forces, but then they saw him on TV.
"My friends are very happy that everything turned out and I am fine," he said. "I had to help because I could."
