 Within two weeks, performing combat missions, Zabrodsky'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 latest history.On August 24, 2014, he commanded combined parade battalion of ATO participants at Parade on Independence Day.