{"id":51419,"date":"2026-04-27T10:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/robert-brovdi-ukraines-drone-commander-with-russian-oil-in-his-sights\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:20:26","slug":"robert-brovdi-ukraines-drone-commander-with-russian-oil-in-his-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/robert-brovdi-ukraines-drone-commander-with-russian-oil-in-his-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Brovdi, Ukraine&#8217;s drone commander with Russian oil in his sights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Four years ago, Robert Brovdi was more comfortable in auction houses like Christie&#8217;s than filthy trenches. A well-off grain dealer in those days, with a sideline as an art collector, fragments of his pre-war life survive in the paintings and sculptures by Ukrainian artists dotted around the bunker. They&#8217;re displayed beside missile casings and captured drones. He&#8217;s an ethnic Hungarian, from Uzhhorod in western Ukraine, and best known by his military call sign, Magyar. Clean-shaven before the war, he now wears a long ginger and grey-speckled beard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c1d9wvd2e4ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, Robert Brovdi was more comfortable in auction houses like Christie&#8217;s than filthy trenches. A well-off grain dealer in those days, with a sideline as an art collector, fragments of his pre-war life survive in the paintings and sculptures by Ukrainian artists dotted around the bunker. They&#8217;re displayed beside missile casings and captured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51421,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51419\/revisions\/51421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}