Mykhaylo Zabrodsky

Early life Zabrodskyi was born on 24 January 1973 in Dnipropetrovsk, the son of a military officer. In 1989 graduated from high school.

Early military career

From 1989 to 1994 he received military education in St. Petersburg - A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy, after which he served for five years in military service under a contract in Russia. After returning to Ukraine he began serving in the 95th Separate Airmobile Brigade as a platoon commander.

In 2005–2006, he was a student at the United States Army Command and General Staff College. His impressions of the education he received were positive:

In the 2014 summer, the 95th Brigade, commanded by Zabrodsky, carried out a raid in the enemy's rear. Within two weeks, performing combat missions, Zabrodskyi's crew passed 470 km from Sloviansk to Mariupol, then along the Russian-Ukrainian border, and through Luhansk returned to Sloviansk. According to American military expert Philip A. Karber, this was the longest raid of armed formation in recent history.

According to Zabrodsky, the difference between Russian and American combat tactics is vast: Zabrodskyi was Commander of the Landing and Assault Troops from 2015 to 2019.

Political career On 29 September 2015 Zabrodskyi was registered as the first candidate (leading the list) for a seat in the Zhytomyr Oblast Council, affiliated with the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity". and serves as a member of the standing committee on regulation, deputy activity, local government, legality, law enforcement, and anti-corruption activities.

In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Zabrodskyi was placed fourth on the party list of European Solidarity (the party formerly named Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity"), and was elected to the Verkhovna Rada.

During his tenure as MVR he was the First Deputy Chairman of the parliament's National Security, Defense, and Intelligence Committee, and a member of the group for inter-parliamentary relations with the Italian Republic.

Zabrodskyi renounced his parliamentary mandate in March 2023.

In February 2024, Zabrodskyi was dismissed as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Personal life Zabrodskyi speaks English fluently. Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky 3d class (October 21, 2014) Order of Danylo Halytsky (February 22, 2010)