 On 1 August 2015, he was promoted to Major general.On November 9, 2017 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko informed on his page in social network Facebook that Commander of the Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mykhaylo Zabrodsky, was appointed new commander of the antiterrorist forces (ATO).Simultaneously with new appointment, during the course of one of the largest rotations in the ATO zone, several brigades of the SSW, including the 25th Airborne and 79th Airborne Assault, entered the collision line.