Mykhailo Fedorov

"[17] The following day Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk stressed that each government ministry had planned expenditures for digitization and that the Ministry of Digital Transformation did have a separate budget and that thus the state budget was sufficient to launch the "state in a smartphone" project in 2020.

[18] In August-September 2022, Fedorov attended the Digital Transformation Strategy training course at the Yale School of Management.

[7] Together with the team, he launched a number of services and projects: During the full-scale invasion, the following projects were implemented: Two days after Russia invaded, Mykhailo Fedorov used Twitter to ask Elon Musk to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations.

[41] As of 2023, there were over 18K Starlinks operating in Ukraine, providing critical infrastructure for government agencies, etc with a stable Internet connection.

Given the number of terminals and their demand, SpaceX decided to open a representative office in Ukraine.

This solution came in handy as there were a lot of situations where there was a need to get critical infrastructure running again, rather than waiting for power to be restored.