The aim was to out-produce and out-innovate the Kremlin.Īt thirty-two, Fedorov is now a veteran. He hoped to incentivize and energize both the voluntary and private sectors. Fedorov’s remit was to bypass a slow-moving and often fraud-addled civil service. Once the war intensified, the brief soon expanded to defense procurement. At first, the idea was to move common government services onto an app called Diia. Soon after his election, President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the then twenty-eight-year-old Fedorov to run a new ministry aimed at turning Ukraine into a digital country (or, as he put it, a “paperless state”). Russia has drones too - many more of them - and is adept at jamming and downing Ukraine’s fleet. To reclaim occupied land, Ukrainian troops need to remove miles of landmines, and can do so only if kept safe by swarms of drones that fly ahead, searching for the enemy. It has become crucial to the counteroffensive. We meet at the Ministry of Digital Transformation, which he runs in Kyiv. “We will end this war with drones,” says Mykhailo Fedorov, deputy prime minister of Ukraine.
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