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The appointment of Robert Brovdi, known by his call sign "Madyar," as head of the Unmanned Systems Forces of Ukraine has already yielded noticeable results, according to Russian military bloggers. They report that Ukrainian drone strikes are now primarily aimed at eliminating 1/12

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Russian UAV operators. Madyar has openly declared his goal of building a "drone wall" along the entire front line and destroying up to 35,000 Russian soldiers per month—the estimated number that the Russian army can mobilize on a monthly basis. He advocates for establishing 2/12 https://t.co/XyGjkBBpDy

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dedicated UAV units for each section of the front line, with operators who are intimately familiar with their own sector, rather than deploying UAV teams as a mobile reserve shuffled between hotspots. His concept is to create a continuous "kill zone" across the whole 3/12 https://t.co/z2ADrg7BEb

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frontline where defense relies not on bunkers, manpower, and fortifications, but on the work of FPV drones. The first step to making such a strategy effective, according to him, is the elimination of enemy UAV assets—removing Russian reconnaissance and strike capabilities 4/12 https://t.co/NmIqH10FGY

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and directly targeting enemy drone pilots. Russian sources claim that Madyar has now been granted expanded authority and access to a wide range of weaponry, including the ability to direct HIMARS missile strikes, which he is reportedly already employing. They also note a 5/12 https://t.co/dgCHsXsQAL

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decline in attacks on Russian logistics and rear areas, as Ukrainian drone efforts increasingly focus on targeting UAV operator teams. Madyar's unique combat experience highlights the key difference between the Russian and Ukrainian militaries. Despite all the institutional 6/12 https://t.co/j7ibvBpTwg

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challenges and remnants of Soviet military culture, Ukraine’s army is evolving—and figures like Robert Brovdi are proof of this transformation. Having started in the Territorial Defense Forces, he led an assault platoon and in May-June 2022 created his own aerial 7/12 https://t.co/LGiSuAQHub

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reconnaissance unit called "Madyar's Birds," which became the first in the Ukrainian military to specialize in both reconnaissance and strike UAV operations. Thanks to its effectiveness, he was promoted to the rank of major and is now the Commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned 8/12 https://t.co/YHQ4aK8kMV

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Systems Forces. This kind of rapid and merit-based career advancement would be unimaginable in the Russian military. Russian observers recognize him as a highly capable and dangerous commander who fully understands the potential and limits of drone warfare—and they are 9/12 https://t.co/fnHJsJh5A5

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right to do so. Madyar’s focus on targeting Russian manpower rather than hardware also indicates how depleted Russian technical resources have become. Ukrainian reports from the Sumy direction, where Russia has recently intensified attacks, mention almost no significant 10/12 https://t.co/14rzs55K1I

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enemy equipment losses—only a few destroyed transport vehicles. If Madyar succeeds in reaching his ambitious target of 35,000 Russian soldiers killed or wounded per month, it could deprive Russia of its last major advantage: sheer numerical superiority in manpower. 11/12 https://t.co/a8s9fn8Zow

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Without this, Russia's ability to sustain offensive operations may collapse, as its capacity for large-scale mechanized assaults has already been severely reduced. 12/12 https://t.co/B4dfbRCriB

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Since March 2023, Russia has been actively using guided glide bombs or GBs along the entire front line. In 2024, these bombs became the main striking force of the Russians on the front, it is with their help that Russia destroys Ukrainian cities and villages. On March 27, 1/12 https://t.co/0LMC7gnDO2

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Russia struck Kharkiv with a large-caliber guided munition for the first time in early 2022. Since then, Russian terror with KABs has not stopped. It has a fairly wide GB arsenal. New, but rare, guided gliding aerial bomb UPAB-1500 weighing 1,500 kilograms and a warhead 2/12 https://t.co/rPXQltssEd

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weighing 1,010 kg. For the UPAB-1500V, the range is 40 kilometers at a drop altitude of 14 kilometers, that is, from the stratosphere. The speed of the carrier aircraft is about 1,000 kilometers per hour. Developed on the basis of the Kh-38 Grom-1 and Grom-2 missiles. 3/12 https://t.co/FhCmBiGsNJ

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They are declared to have a range of up to 120 kilometers at a launch altitude of 12 kilometers. The mass of the Grom-1 warhead is 250 kg. Grom-2 is a gliding bomb, which has another warhead weighing 165 kilograms in place of the engine. Various aerial bombs similar to JDAM 4/12 https://t.co/XoztCfKIK0

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are also used. These are FAB-500, FAB-1000, FAB-1500 with UMPK wing kits and navigation. Russia also has a stock of so-called adjustable aerial bombs - KAB-500Kr or KAB-1500. The Russians also have a limited number of the 540-kilogram gliding bomb "Drel" (Drill), the closest 5/12 https://t.co/vAnrDlCAXQ

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analogue of which is the American cluster gliding bomb AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon. In addition, the Russians have FAB-3000. These are bombs that weigh more than 3,000 kilograms, and the weight of the warhead is approximately 1,400 kilograms. In 2024, Russia announced the 6/12 https://t.co/2UAQ47smGc

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mass production of FAB-3000 and promises to manufacture 600 units. They also plan to install a UMPK on this bomb, which should increase its range and turn it from a free-fall bomb into a giant guided aviation bomb. In reality, the accuracy and range of all these bombs are 7/12 https://t.co/JxrYiLxToV

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questionable. At the same time, even a drop range of 80 kilometers means that border areas and frontline areas may be at risk of such a strike. According to estimates by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia uses approximately 20 such bombs daily. 8/12 https://t.co/kIOyqtZSq0

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Russian aircraft strike from a distance of 50 kilometers behind the line of combat engagement or the state border of Ukraine, or from the sea. Among them, the FAB-500 is predominant. As noted by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, enemy aircraft do not enter the zone of Ukrainian 9/12 https://t.co/tC39qUtoAW

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air defense. It is difficult to fight such bombs - they are problematic targets, it would be simpler and more logical to destroy their carrier - Su-34, Su-35, etc. There is nothing to get the planes with yet. It is possible to try to shoot down the bombs, but this requires 10/12 https://t.co/LFKNM1VZNC

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a lot of resources. Most Russian aircraft cannot boast of a long range and many of them are based only 200 km from the Ukrainian border at the Baltimore airfield in Voronezh. They are within the reach of ATACMS, but the United States has not yet given permission 11/12 https://t.co/ul2cKslf1F

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for strikes so deep in Russia. Once again, Ukraine has to count the losses and the victims, waiting for another political decision from its allies, the delay of which is difficult to understand at this stage of the war. 12/12 https://t.co/PC721DJXfr