Ukraine says it bought 5,000 pickup trucks through open competitive bidding and saved more than $45 million
Six uppliers will deliver the all-wheel-drive diesels by year's end.
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Mykhailo Fedorov
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Fired Ukraine defense chief Fedorov launches defense-tech company with Palantir CEO backing
After leaving government, Mykhailo Fedorov has moved deeper into defense technology, raising money in the US and pitching new ways to turn Ukraine’s battlefield experience into weapons and military systems.
Fired Ukrainian minister offers to help build America’s drone army— for Patriot missiles in return
Mykhailo Fedorov is courting US investors for a fund that would build defense tech companies itself, not just back them.
Ukraine dismissed its defense minister in July. He is now advising NATO country on defense innovation
Guido Crozetto called the dismissed Ukrainian minister the day after Kyiv let him go.
Ukraine’s new commander-in-chief has been picking technical chiefs. Adviser who knows them says he is putting most competent people
Serhii Beskrestnov says he knows most of the army's technical specialists and rates the new appointments.
Kyiv is asking Musk to let it strike inside Russia. Its best line to Musk is gone
Running low on Patriot interceptors, Kyiv wants to hunt the launchers up to 200 km inside Russia—but only Musk can switch the drones on.
Ukraine planned 1,000 AI-guided drones a night to shut Moscow airports, Atlantic reports
Two anonymous sources said the drones could identify targets despite jamming. A Ukrainian presidential official denied the project existed.
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“Fedorov instead of Khmara”: Ukrainian protesters outside parliament greet news of new defense minister’s appointment with disapproval
People say they will continue protesting despite the decision.
Ukraine’s Gen Z protested for their anti-corruption agencies last year. Now they’re protesting for one man
A leaderless crowd is reading the war more clearly than the command class that dismisses them—and letting one blogger tell them what it means.
“I’m not agreeing to any other position”: Ukraine’s fired defense minister says only return to his former job will help end army procurement corruption
Mykhailo Fedorov says he will accept no post Zelenskyy offers except defense minister, arguing only three roles truly shape the war and he will take only his old one.
Ukraine’s defense minister explained how the country buys weapons—after he was sacked
A sacked minister spent 90 minutes explaining how Ukraine buys shells. He told more than the ministry had published in six months.
Zelenskyy fires both army chief and defense minister. Poll taken mid-protest shows Ukrainians only wanted one of them gone
A Rating Group poll taken during the protests found Ukrainians opposed the defense minister's firing 14 to 1, while backing the army chief's removal by a narrower margin.
As rumors swirl over Syrskyi’s future, Zelenskyy meets commanders and top general warns against political infighting
Zelenskyy held another round of talks with senior commanders as speculation over Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi continued, while Air Assault Forces Commander Oleh Apostol urged the military to stay out of politics.
“They removed the auditor, not the thieves”: why Ukrainians are protesting Zelenskyy’s reshuffle
The entire government has been swapped, yet protests hit Kyiv and 16 more cities only in support of ex-Defense Minister Fedorov
Fedorov breaks his silence: Ukraine’s army chief Syrskyi gave him an ultimatum—then blocked his reforms
He confirmed the feud with Oleksandr Syrskyi drove the dismissal, at a briefing hours before the vote.
The Syrskyi feud was not it: why Ukraine really dropped its drone-war minister
As crowds fill the streets in cities across Ukraine to support the forced-out minister, a deputy air force commander says he joined in 2022 to win the war, not to watch reforms stall.
“Cardboard” protests against Zelenskyy’s firing of Fedorov erupt across Ukraine
The rallies were timed to the parliament session set to seal a wider government reshuffle.
Ukraine’s deputy Air Force commander resigns the moment Fedorov loses the ministry
Pavlo Yelizarov, the No. 2 in the Air Force since January, made the departing minister's removal the sole reason for handing in his report.
“Symbolically,” says Ukraine’s departing defense minister: New ballistic missile was tested on day government resigned
On his way out, Fedorov said Ukraine ran a successful ballistic missile test on 14 July, developed in the Defense Ministry's zone of responsibility.
“Our state became further from victory”: Ukraine’s top volunteer, whose fund bought 286,000 FPV Drones, just lost his defense post
Serhii Sternenko, whose foundation delivered 118,000 FPV drones to the front, is out as defense adviser after Fedorov's exit.