Ukraine Has a Destruction Plan. They’re Exceeding It. Four Months Running. Madyar Just Told BBC How.

@BBC just published a rare interview with the commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces @usf_army — “Madyar” — Robert Brovdi.

Art collector. Grain trader. Former Christie’s regular. Now running the most technologically advanced drone warfare operation in history from a secret underground command centre.

This is what he said. 🧵👇 1/

“The territory 1,500–2,000 km inside Russia is no longer a peaceful rear. The freedom-loving Ukrainian ‘bird’ flies there whenever and wherever it wants.”

Nobody Knew Scotland Until Braveheart. Now the World Has 🇺🇦Killhouse.

Ukraine just made the war film that explains everything you didn’t understand about modern warfare.

It’s called Killhouse.

It opens April 23. And you need to see it.

Here are 5 reasons why. 🧵👇 1/ It’s based on a real operation.

And it’s unlike anything you’ve seen on screen.

Two Ukrainian commanders — callsigns Sid and Sova — conducted a real civilian rescue using drones. When director Lyubomyr Levytsky first saw the drone footage, he didn’t believe it was real.

CNN @CNN came to Ukraine, filmed a report, aired it in prime time. The footage got 2 million views and hundreds of thousands of comments.

“I realised this story about drones is something completely new in cinema. It reaches people. It’s understandable. And it needed to be told.”
— Director Levytsky

The film dramatises that operation — and deepens it with one of the most painful realities of this war: children stolen by Russia.

The civilian couple crossing into occupied territory wasn’t retrieving their parents. They were trying to buy back their daughter.

Russia spent decades and billions building a fleet to dominate the Black Sea.

Ukraine dismantled it with drones — sinking 30+ vessels, evicting the fleet from Crimea, and rewriting the rules of maritime warfare without a large navy of its own.

Every navy in the world is taking notes.
This thread is the receipt and must-read. 🧵👇 1/ March 25, 2022 — Saratov (Large landing ship)

A land-based Tochka-U ballistic missile. Fired at a ship. In a port. That had never been done before.

Saratov was destroyed at the dock in occupied Berdiansk. Two more ships fled with fires burning on their decks.

Russia's amphibious landing on southern Ukraine — cancelled.

🇺🇦🇵🇪 Ukrainian Soldiers Pulled a Peruvian Father From a River. His Story Is a Warning to All of Latin America.

His name is Freddy Gomez.

He is 41. He has two sons — one of them seriously ill.
He came from Peru to Russia looking for work. He almost didn't come home.

This is his story — and his warning to every man in Latin America being offered easy money in Russia right now. 🧵👇 2 / Freddy is a technician from Lima, Peru.

Cameras, computers, electronics. Honest work.

A Colombian contact offered him something better: a government job in Moscow, good pay, official contract.

Everything arranged.

He flew to Russia on February 28.
By March 1, he was drugged at a party, thrown into a car, and waking up inside a Russian military facility.

His phone was gone. His documents were gone.

"I saw the contract and it was all in Russian. I didn't sign it. Then I understood — this wasn't a job. It was military service. And I was going to war."

Ukraine Is Quietly Building the Most Important System of This War. It Has Nothing to Do With Weapons.

Ukraine just brought 175 soldiers home from Russian captivity.

What happens next — the system no one talks about. 🧵👇 2/ Coming home from a Russian prison is not the end of the ordeal.

It is the beginning of a different one.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence @DefenceU has built an 80-facility nationwide system to receive them.

Here is how it works — and why it matters.

9,000 robotic missions in one month — Ukraine is automating the frontline🧵

In March alone, Ukraine’s ground robotic systems (UGVs) executed 9,000+ missions — up from ~2,900 in Nov 2025 and 7,000 in Jan 2026.

Since the start of 2026: 32,500 missions — @DefenceU .

This is not experimentation anymore. It’s scaling.

Why it matters?👇 2 / What’s happening

Ukraine is systematically shifting high-risk battlefield tasks to robots:

— ammunition resupply
— logistics under fire
— casualty evacuation

Already 167 units are using UGVs (vs 67 in late 2025).

All missions are tracked, verified, and scored via the DELTA battlefield system — turning robotics into a measurable, managed capability.

Ukraine is no longer just learning from NATO. It is teaching it🧵

Ukraine’s battlefield experience is now shaping how allied forces train — Ukraine’s General Staff @GeneralStaffUA.

Ukrainian instructors conducted a live demonstration for international trainers under Operation Interflex in the United Kingdom — marking a shift from aid recipient to equal partner.👇 2/ What Ukraine brought to the table:

— Small-unit tactics in urban combat
— Fighting in forests with limited visibility
— Immediate response to ambushes
— Assault and keeping positions under fire
— Integration of reconnaissance and FPV drones into every phase of combat

All tested in real, high-intensity war.

🇺🇦 Ukraine just did in 2 months what takes most militaries years🧵

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence @DefenceU has deployed Mission Control — a unified AI-powered drone management system — across every single army corps and troop grouping on the front line.

Here’s why this is a bigger deal than it sounds. 👇 2/ WHAT IS MISSION CONTROL?

Mission Control is a digital command layer inside Ukraine’s DELTA battlefield ecosystem — a real-time intelligence and coordination platform Ukraine has been building since the full-scale invasion began in 2022.

It tracks every drone unit’s activity across the entire force and converts raw operational data into clean, actionable dashboards — available simultaneously from battalion level all the way up to the General Staff @GeneralStaffUA and Ministry of Defence @DefenceU .

147th Artillery Brigade: How Ukraine’s Armed Forces Transformed in 4 Years of War 🧵

Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, the story of one brigade shows how modern war — and Ukraine’s military — have evolved.

Meet the 147th Separate Artillery Brigade.👇 1/ Built in War. Deployed in Months.

Formed in August 2025 as part of Ukraine’s corps reform, the 147th became the first newly created artillery brigade to deploy at full strength.

By January — fully operational.
No years of peacetime buildup.
Just months.

That’s wartime transformation.

🇩🇪🇺🇦From German Engineering to Battlefield Reality: Lessons from Wisent in Ukraine

When Germany delivered the Wisent engineering vehicle to Ukraine, it was more than equipment transfer. It was the beginning of a real-time learning cycle under combat conditions.🧵👇 2 / Wisent — based on the Leopard 1A platform — is designed to restore mobility under fire. In Ukraine, that capability is tested daily.

“As soon as we hit a minefield, Wisent goes first,” says Oleksii, a Ukrainian instructor who trained in Germany.
“It clears a path by pushing mines aside with its teeth. Then it reverses on its own tracks — and armored vehicles follow.”

The russians have already lost 15 #T90M tanks in 🇺🇦 -
Andriy Rudyk, representative of the Center for the Research of Trophy and Prospective Weapons and Military Equipment of @GeneralStaffUA, during a briefing at @MilMediaCenter. Parts of #T90M

📸 Nazar Voloshyn.
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👉Media #announcement!
A briefing on the failed 🇷🇺 T-90M main battle tank with the participation of representatives of the Centre for Research on Trophy and Advanced Weapons will take place on March 16, 11:00 a.m., in the Military Media Center.
1/ Elements of the #T90M tank will be demonstrated at the briefing.

❗️Accreditation for media representatives is required and will be available until March 15, 6:00 p.m. Accreditation applications can be sent to psmodu@post.mil.gov.ua
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Vadym is one of those who was trained in 🇩🇪 and now destroys 🇷🇺 missiles and drones with the help of the modern #IrisT system.

📸 Anastasia Olekhnovych.

1/ The 🇩🇪 system is really modern, powerful and effective. Already during the first baptism of fire in October last year, the system shot down 100 percent ✅ of the targets, these are mostly cruise missiles, - says the anti-aircraft gunner.

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Leopards are wild cats. And that's why they like freedom most of all.

#FreeTheLeopards campaign continues.

Photo credit:
Сергій Брильов
Макс Паленко
Catrine Pedersen
Moshkovsky

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❗️Результати восьмої зустрічі у форматі «Рамштайн»
👉Сьогодні на авіабазі Рамштайн в Німеччині відбулася чергова зустріч Контактної групи з питань оборони України, де зокрема було погоджено надання Україні нового пакета військової допомоги для боротьби з російськими окупантами. 📌Під час підсумкової пресконференції міністра оборони США Ллойда Остіна та голови Об’єднаного комітету начальників штабів США генерала Марка Міллі було підбито підсумки.

The everyday life of Ukraine territorial defense forces @TDF_UA in the #Kharkiv region.
📸 Oksana Ivanets.
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On January 20, #Ukrainians honor the memory of the defenders of the #Donetskairport, who proved that the soldiers who defend the Motherland cannot be defeated.
1/ The defense of Donetsk airport became the Ukrainian #Thermopylae — a symbol of heroic defense, a battle in which brave soldiers held a fierce defense against overwhelming forces of 🇷🇺 occupiers.
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Hello, Friends!
I am 🇺🇦 actor Dmytro Linartovych, a soldier of Air Assault troops in #Soledar 300 (wounded).
Remember that we are on God-given Land. We will never be broken. We are winning. #SlavaUkraini Dmytro Linartovych is #Ukrainian cinema and theatre 🎭 actor.

💬 @oleksiireznikov
Having been defeated on the battlefield, 🇷🇺 is trying to cause a humanitarian crisis in 🇺🇦.
As winter approaches, enemy is attacking the energy infrastructure across the whole territory of 🇺🇦.
Their goal is to cause a new wave of millions of refugees.(1/4) #UAarmy is completing the deoccupation of the Dnipro's right bank.We‘ve liberated Kherson,~200 towns&villages.
This is the result not only of the strategy of🇺🇦military command, it’s also a joint victory with our partners.
🇷🇺have looted #Kherson of everything they could take.(2/4)

Several 🇷🇺 attacks on #Kyiv, #Zhytomyr, #Kharkiv, #Lviv, #Rivne.
Terrorism against 🇺🇦 civilians continues. In #Kyiv, emergency #power outages are used, stabilization schedules are currently not in effect, DTEK reported.

🍉🇺🇦Our exclusive report from the liberated #Kherson
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