[5] In 2015 he was nominated by the news website 'newsru.co.il'[6] for 'Hero of the Year' award, for being the first civil servant to reach the rank of ambassador from the 1990s Post-Soviet aliyah.

The day after, the adviser to the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmytro Yarosh, former leader of Right Sector, stated that "The Israeli ambassador is an agent of influence for the Kremlin.

The substantial military aid received by Israel in 2024 is viewed by many Ukrainians as evidence of the moral relativism of Western democracies.

[12] On March 4, 2022, Brodsky was injured in a car accident in Poland where he and his staff where leading efforts to assist Israelis to leave Ukraine.

After being flown back to Israel, he was temporarily replaced by Simona Halperin, the Head of the Euro-Asia Bureau at the Foreign Ministry.