Robert Brovdi

Force in Play

Leading the long-range drone campaign

On June 18, 555 Ukrainian drones hit Russia in the war's largest single-night attack, striking the Moscow Oil Refinery for the second time in a week. The refinery supplies more than a third of Moscow's road fuel; black smoke covered the city for hours.

Updated 4 days ago

Force in Play

Active command since June 2025

On April 20, Ukraine struck two large Russian Navy landing ships — the Yamal and the Nikolai Filchenkov — in Sevastopol Bay, disabling an estimated $150 million in naval assets and destroying a Podlet-K1 radar station. The same night, drones hit the Tuapse oil refinery in Krasnodar for the second time in a week, igniting tank farm fires at one of Russia's ten largest refineries. These were the latest in a sustained campaign that has forced Russia's Black Sea Fleet to abandon its historic base in Crimea and retreat to Novorossiysk, where it is still being hit.

Updated May 31