Zelenskyy appoints new commanders of Air Assault Forces and Unmanned Methods Forces

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy changed the commanders of the Unmanned Methods Forces and Air Assault Forces of Ukraine on the night of three June. Robert "Magyar" Brovdi is now the commander of the Unmanned Methods Forces, and Oleh Apostol is the brand new commander of the Air Assault Forces.

Supply: Zelenskyy in a video tackle; presidential decrees on the web site; Unmanned Methods Forces; Ukraine’s Defence Minister Rustem Umierov

Quote from Zelenskyy: "The appointment of Oleh Apostol as commander of the Air Assault Forces and Robert Brovdi as commander of the Unmanned Methods Forces has been authorised. This additionally marks a better concentrate on fight points, because the profitable expertise of the perfect brigades have to be scaled up."

Particulars: Vadym Sukharevskyi, who beforehand headed the Unmanned Methods Forces, has been appointed deputy commander of Operational Command Skhid (East). Zelenskyy mentioned that Sukharevskyi’s process could be to modernise this command.

Ihor Skybiuk, the earlier commander of the Air Assault Forces, has been appointed deputy chief of the Common Workers.

After one yr in workplace, Sukharevskyi wrote in a social media publish that he was proud to have headed the Unmanned Methods Forces throughout its first and most difficult yr of formation.

Nevertheless, he added that at this stage, his imaginative and prescient for the longer term improvement of the Unmanned Methods Forces differed from that of the management: "I take into account it an trustworthy {and professional} choice on this state of affairs to finish my time period as commander of the Unmanned Methods Forces. I’m leaving my place with deep religion in everybody who continues to hold this concept ahead."

Particulars: Defence Minister Rustem Umierov added that Robert "Magyar" Brovdi's expertise with among the finest brigades should now be rolled out throughout your complete Unmanned Methods Forces command, whereas Vadym Sukharevskyi’s key process is to modernise Operational Command East by way of new approaches and reforms.

Previous to the full-scale invasion, Brovdi was a businessman concerned in grain buying and selling. His UAV unit developed from a company-sized formation in 2022 to a full brigade by 2024. In 2025, Brovdi, founding father of the strike drone unit "Magyar’s Birds", was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.

Colonel Oleh "Formoza" Apostol at present instructions the ninety fifth Separate Air Assault Polissia Brigade of Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces. His brigade was amongst these concerned within the Kursk operation. In 2024, Apostol was appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine below Common Oleksandr Syrskyi.

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