Leadership: Fedorov thanks Germany
Ukraine’s digital minister and official Mykhailo Fedorov publicly thanked Germany for supplying PAC‑3 missile systems and discussed defense tech items labeled DELTA/PURL in social posts. The post carried the gratitude message and some technical references to the delivered systems (x.com).
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s defence minister, publicly thanked Germany after Ukraine began receiving additional Patriot Advanced Capability-3, or PAC-3, missiles for its Patriot air-defence systems. (mod.gov.ua) Ukraine’s defence ministry said on February 21 that Fedorov thanked German defence minister Boris Pistorius for launching extra PAC-3 deliveries and said Ukraine had already started receiving them “under the agreed framework.” The ministry tied that message to decisions taken in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, the Ramstein-format coalition that coordinates military aid. (mod.gov.ua) PAC-3 missiles are the interceptors fired by Patriot batteries against incoming aircraft and missiles. Fedorov has described the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List, or PURL, as a key channel for buying U.S.-made weapons, including PAC-3 rounds for Patriot systems. (mod.gov.ua) The references to DELTA point to Ukraine’s battlefield software, a combat digital ecosystem that gathers operational data into one system. On January 23, Fedorov signed the launch order for Mission Control, a drone command-and-control tool inside DELTA that records the drone type, launch point, route, and mission for each crew. (globalsecurity.org) That mix of air-defence interceptors and battlefield software shows the two tracks Fedorov has pushed since taking over the defence ministry on January 14, 2026: more missiles for immediate protection and more digital tools for day-to-day command. Before that appointment, he had served as Ukraine’s digital transformation minister and first deputy prime minister. (mod.gov.ua) Germany has been central to both tracks in recent months. In talks on January 20, Fedorov said Germany accounted for more than 30% of the security assistance announced for Ukraine in 2026, and he credited German-supplied Patriot and IRIS-T systems, plus German participation in PURL, with helping blunt Russian attacks. (mod.gov.ua) Fedorov has also used meetings with Germany, Britain, NATO and the European Group of Five to press for more missile-defence production in Europe. In those talks, he argued that current manufacturing capacity for counter-ballistic systems is too low and proposed joint European projects to develop and build more of them. (mod.gov.ua) The backdrop is a supply problem as much as a battlefield one: Patriot interceptors are scarce, expensive, and slower to produce than the pace of Russian missile and drone attacks. On April 14, Raytheon said it had signed a $3.7 billion contract to supply Patriot GEM-T interceptors for Ukraine, with a new production facility in Schrobenhausen, Germany, expected to support that output. (raytheon.mediaroom.com) Fedorov’s thank-you to Germany lands inside that wider effort to keep Patriot batteries supplied while Ukraine digitizes more of its battlefield command. The message was short, but it pointed to the same two priorities his ministry has been spelling out for months: more interceptors now, and more integrated defence tech behind them. (mod.gov.ua)
