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Andriy Liskovich until February 2022 was an entreprener in California, but after the invasion of Russian troops moved from the management of technological startups to the search for supply for the Ukrainian army. About it reports The Washington Post. Liskovich was born in Zaporozhye in 1984, Russian - his mother tongue, he studied at Moscow University, and in 2007 he moved to the United States and received a PhD at Kennedy Harvard School.

In the future, he worked at Uber, where he headed the Uber Works unit. After a full-scale invasion, he returned from San Francisco to Zaporozhye, transported his parents to a safe place, and he volunteered to the front. When they learned about his background, he was offered to look for equipment for the Armed Forces instead of participating in the battles.

With the help of his personal bank card and donations from friends, he bought everything necessary for people on the front line - satellite terminals of Starlink or socks. After a while, he organized several organizations that supply non -lethal equipment for Ukraine's defenders. One of these is Ukraine Defense Fund. After a year, the project still works at the expense of donation from the "technological light", which wished to remain anonymous.

According to him, the Armed Forces require drones, generators and other similar equipment. Uncorponed artillery requires 60 shots to hit the target. While the artillery installation in tandem with a drone will require five or fewer shells. Liskovich said that he had helped conclude an agreement with the German Defense Ministry to supply 138 fixed wing drones whose radius is higher than the simple quadcopters used on both sides of the front line and are often produced by one Chinese company DJI.

According to him, he also facilitated agreements on the provision of satellite images of the APU, Chinese batteries for Western vehicles and radio sensors of German production, which can monitor electromagnetic signatures of Russian drones. He also tries to meet other needs of the Ukrainian army, supply more satellite terminals, rations, computer equipment and sensors.

One of his new ideas is to buy hundreds of old school buses in the United States and use them to transport Ukrainian servicemen or as mobile team points and even shower. Each bus will cost about five thousand dollars, but transportation to Ukraine is twice or even more expensive. Liskovich is currently trying to negotiate with carriers about a lower price. "What I do now - I solve problems in the area where I had no experience before. I didn't have a military background.

I just got closer to the end user to find out his problems. Don't need to ask what solution you need, You offer them a solution and see what they will say. This is the Silicon Valley's synopsis, "the former manager of the technological company explained. Liskovich acts as a mediator between "end users", that is, military, and Western suppliers, governments, etc. According to him, he does not suffer to return to the usual life in San Francisco, but now is not time.