Mykhailo Fedorov, the Ukraine minister who launched a digital strike on Russia, is worried about his father’s health since he has been in intensive care for the past week after a Russian missile struck the house next door. The youngest minister in Volodymyr Zelensky’s cabinet, Fedorov, in his first interview with the New York Times since the war broke out in Ukraine, said, “The war has come knocking on my door as well personally.”

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According to the NYT, the 31-year-old politician attended the interview on Zoom call from an undisclosed location near Kyiv and said his goal was to create a “digital blockade” and to make life so unpleasant and inconvenient for Russian citizens that they would think seriously about the consequences of the war.

Thanking the companies for their support, he added that more can be done to corner Russia. And his tweets to Google, Apple, Elon Musk are not the only reasons that these companies stood against Russia; the sanctions by the West also helped.

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“We believe that as long as Russians are silent, they are complicit to the aggression and to the killing of our people,” he said.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, Fedorov mobilized personnel with a vast understanding of the digital world. He also received help from a group of volunteer hackers to ‘wreak havoc on Russian websites and online services.

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“In the 45-minute interview on Zoom, Mr Fedorov, wearing a loose-fitting gray fleece with black zippers, sat in front of a wood-paneled wall. He has gotten about three to four hours of sleep a night, he said, often interrupted every 30 minutes or so by alerts on the iPhone that he keeps next to his bed. He said he has been worried about his father, who has been in intensive care for the past week after a missile struck the house next door,” the report said.

Before joining mainstream politics, Fedorov was leading a digital marketing company which helped him land a job with Ukrainian Present Volodymyr Zelensky in 2018 as Zelensky’s digital campaign director.

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Fedorov speaks to Zelensky every day since the war broke out, the report said.

In the last few days, Fedorov has reached out to a host of companies, including Apple, Google, Netflix, SpaceX, Meta, YouTube etc. His latest missive has been to Xerox, whom he has urged to stop supply in Russia.