Ukrainian drone commander Robert Brovdy targets Russian oil

Four years ago, Robert Brovdie was more comfortable in an auction house like Christie’s than in the filthy trenches. By then he was a prosperous grain merchant with a sideline as an art collector, and fragments of his pre-war life survive in the paintings and sculptures by Ukrainian artists dotted around the bunker. They are displayed next to missile casings and captured drones. He was a Hungarian from Uzhhorod in western Ukraine and was best known by his military call sign “Magyar”. He had been clean shaven before the war and now had a long ginger beard speckled with gray.