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Ukraine plans to turn its wartime military technology and digital resilience experience into a broader high-tech export push, with the US among the prospective partners.
This was reported by Reuters on September 30, based on an interview with Ukraine's Minister for Digital Transformation, Oksana Ferchuk.
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Ferchuk told the agency that Kyiv aims to use its expertise in military technologies and digital innovation, including AI, to sharply increase high-tech exports in the coming years.
"We are ready to cooperate and consult other states in this experience," Ferchuk stated, according to Reuters.
The minister explained that Ukraine is exploring cooperation agreements with the US, other countries and international institutions, drawing on its record of keeping state digital services running during the war, now in its fifth year.
Reuters noted that Ferchuk traveled to Washington this week to meet US economic, cybersecurity and telecommunications officials, as well as senior World Bank leaders. She is pitching the US, the European Union and other partners on cooperation projects in the digital sphere.
She also disclosed that Ukraine is moving data centers and infrastructure underground after an increase in Russian strikes on such facilities in recent months. Ferchuk acknowledged the destruction of infrastructure at dozens of telecom and data center locations, yet described the country's digital services as "alive and running."
Built-in redundancies across locations and cloud providers have kept them functioning, she emphasized. The attacks had been painful, she indicated, but had not significantly disrupted services.
Ferchuk previously oversaw digital transformation at the defense ministry. Reuters described Ukraine as a test bed for the newest weaponry, already helping other countries build their drone defenses.
According to the report, cheaper products and quicker innovation have allowed Kyiv to disrupt the generally slower-moving global military technology sector.
The minister argued that the same approach could work in civilian fields, with AI incorporated along the way. She warned that companies or countries that skip investment in Ukraine risk missing the transformation of new sectors.
Ferchuk added that she had already met World Bank officials in Kyiv, who showed strong interest in Ukrainian digital tools, including platforms for education, telecommunications and social services. Further discussions with the bank were planned for this week, Reuters reported.
Earlier, on July 22, Ukraine and the US signed a bilateral statement of intent establishing a framework for the temporary export of Ukrainian unmanned systems for testing by the Pentagon.
By July 31, F-Drones had delivered the first 2,000 F10 FPV drones under the $1 billion Drone Dominance Program, making the F10 the first Ukrainian drone authorized for export to the US under the initiative.
A broader drone-defense agreement was ready for signing as of September 23, though it had not yet been finalized.
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