Ex-Ukrainian minister pitches US drone fund for Patriot missile barter

Former Ukrainian digital minister Mykhailo Fedorov is soliciting US investors for a fund that would directly build defense tech firms, offering Patriot missile deliveries as a return. This marks a novel state-adjacent private initiative blending defense industrial policy with barter diplomacy. Uncertainties include fund structure, US legal feasibility, and whether Patriot transfers would require congressional approval.