At a glance
| Born | January 21, 1991 — Vasylivka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine |
| Known for | Diia — the "state in a smartphone" app; Army of Drones |
| 2019–2025 | Minister of Digital Transformation (Ukraine's youngest minister at 28) |
| 2025 | First Deputy Prime Minister |
| Jan–Jul 2026 | Minister of Defence — dismissed July 15, 2026, in a government reshuffle |
Why him
Fedorov is the person who proved a government app doesn't have to feel like a government app. Diia put passports, driver's licences, and dozens of services into a phone — and did it well enough that other countries started licensing the model.
Then the full-scale invasion redefined the job. He turned a civil ministry into a wartime tech operation: crowdfunding and scaling drone procurement through the Army of Drones, getting Starlink terminals into the country within days, and building the IT Army out of volunteers. As someone from Ukraine heading into cybersecurity, that arc — from marketing guy to digital minister to defence minister before 35 — is the clearest proof I know that tech skills translate into national resilience.
His defence-minister chapter ended abruptly this week; whatever he does next, the playbook he wrote for digital statecraft already outlives the job titles.