Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said he has offered Mykhailo Fedorov, recently sacked as Ukraine’s Defense Minister, a role as an adviser in Italy, Report informs via Reuters.
“I called him the day after his dismissal and said: When do you want to come to Rome and work with me as an adviser?” Crosetto told Italian daily la Repubblica in an interview published on Saturday.
Asked how Fedorov had responded, Crosetto said the former minister was “moved” and saw the offer as “a demonstration of esteem and friendship”.
Crosetto praised Fedorov as a driver of military innovation, saying he was “one of those people who completely rewrote the rules of the game on the battlefield”.
Fedorov, a 35-year-old tech-savvy reformer credited by supporters with boosting Ukraine’s drone capabilities and pushing defense-sector reforms, was ousted as defense minister this month, a move that sparked rare wartime protests in Ukraine.