Mykhailo Fedorov: We have changed the playbook basically overnight

Since the beginning of the invasion, Ministry of Digital Transformation has embarked on protecting the cyberfront. We started to launch digital services to support Ukrainians and the Armed Forces of Ukraine as well as create tools enabling to geolocate and recognize the enemy. One of such resources is the “e-Enemy” chatbot.

A few weeks into the war, a column of Russian armored vehicles with missile launchers rumbled through a neighborhood near Kherson, in southern Ukraine. As it rolled past an intersection, staff at Ukraine’s digital ministry back in Kyiv watched as the “e-Enemy” chatbot, which is monitored 24/7, lit up with dozens of reports from residents’ windows block by block. Almost every apartment sent a report.

We have satellite imagery, we have the verified content from our apps, we have other sources that I’m not at liberty to disclose…I am very sure it will help us prove our case in international jurisdictions.

Read more in an interview of Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov for the TIME edition.