André Leopold

[Mykhailo Fedorov @FedorovMykhailo]

It has been a great honor to serve the Ukrainian people as the Minister of Defense.

Here is what our team managed to achieve:

1. Disabled Starlink access for Russian forces.

2. Took over a Ministry of Defense with zero budget, took a risk, reallocated funds from payroll from the end of the year, and effectively invested them in mid-strike capabilities, fiber-optic FPVs, low-cost reconnaissance, ground robotic platforms, interceptor drones, and deep-strike drones.

3. Launched "Logistical Lockdown", this cut off enemy logistics and initiated the isolation of Crimea.

4. Continued the funding program for the Drone Line.

5. Launched a support program for modern drone-assault units that rely primarily on advanced technologies in combat.

6. Introduced a 70% advance payment policy for procurements made via e-Points on the Brave1 Market portal.

7. Fundamentally overhauled the procurement system.

8. Procured thousands of pickup trucks, buggies, and ATVs for the military for the first time—and did so through open tenders.

9. The drone interception rate rose from 83% to 91%, and the cruise missile interception rate soared from 47% to 87%.

10. Contracted Patriot PAC-2 GEM-T missiles for the first time, and submitted an application through an EU loan to purchase PAC-3 missiles.

11. Launched a baseline drone supply system for brigades and corps.

12. Launched a massive grant program for manufacturers of explosives and missiles.

13. Initiated an unpopular but vital transformation of the military.

14. Conducted three UDCG meetings, where we successfully broke through the Russian information trap claiming our defeat, restoring partners' faith in Ukraine. This secured $40 billion in support announced for this year (excluding the EU loan).

15. Launched the mechanism to utilize the EU loan for our military priorities.

16. Found a way to scale cheap missiles against jet-powered Shaheds and signed a record-breaking contract.

17. Our domestic ballistics. We radically revised the technical specifications, maximized accuracy, and reduced the cost by 30%.

18. Signed a contract to procure Gripen fighter jets.

19. Collaborated with the military to plan and execute Operation Auchan, which halted the enemy's mechanized offensive for six months.

20. Opened up exports under the Drone Deal program to attract investment and scale up domestic defense-industrial complex (OPK) production.

21. Launched the Trophy Lab, providing partners with the opportunity to study captured Russian military technologies.

22. Launched the Defense AI Center A1 to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence on the battlefield.

Thank you to my entire team for their relentless 24/7 service. A special thank you to my family for their patience.

Thank you all for your support!

I will continue to work toward the mission I originally brought to the Ministry of Defense: defeating the enemy through asymmetry, the speed of innovation, and the power of organization.

To be continued.

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@TomWoodstom From Elis J. Rosen, @NewYorker.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’re expanding Project Glasswing. We’ve extended access to Claude Mythos Preview to approximately 150 additional organizations, based in more than fifteen countries.

Read more about this expansion and our future plans for Project Glasswing: https://t.co/QrtHSBdRbh

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@Gert_Woellmann Wenn sich "installierte Smartphones" von "Smartphones in Benutzung" so krass entkoppelt, sollte auch dem letzten Smartphone-Fan klar werden, dass immer mehr Smartphones nicht helfen werden.

[Julius Kölzer @Julius_Ktxt]

Dass die AfD auf Wahlkarten enorm dominant wirkt, obwohl sie Wahlkreise oft nur mit kleinen relativen Mehrheiten gewinnt, weil sich ihre Konkurrenten in der fragmentierten Erststimmenlandschaft gegenseitig Stimmen wegnehmen, haben wir hier aufgeschrieben.

https://t.co/YprqrjZSLj

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@KobeissiLetter after a tariff-driven collapse than a new record.

The Boeing order and beef/poultry market access are concrete. Rare earths remain the key strategic item, but so far the language is vague: no volumes, timelines, or enforcement mechanism. 2/2

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@KobeissiLetter Worth quantifying this before calling it a breakthrough.

The $17bn/year agriculture pledge sounds large, but US ag exports to China were roughly $25–27bn in 2024 and around $40bn at the 2022 peak. If soybeans are counted separately, this looks more like normalization 1/2

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@KobeissiLetter Funny, the story was the country selling goods would pay for tariffs.

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@WallstreetTra13 @JamesTate121 Self proclaimed Wall Street trader asking _that_ question brings a lot of implications on his professional quality. Oh well, moving on.

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@_methodmax_ @BasilTheGreat What a self own. “The most easily manipulated people” as conclusion to fake news.

[Julius Kölzer @Julius_Ktxt]

Baden-Württemberg hat gewählt. Welche Erkenntnisse lassen sich aus den Ergebnissen der einzelnen Parteien ziehen? Ein paar statistische Auswertungen auf Basis von Wahlergebnissen und sozialen Strukturmerkmalen aus 1.101 Gemeinden. Ein Thread 🧵

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@katjadler Wärmepumpe? Gewagter Take, das als Angstfaktor darzustellen in der aktuellen Weltlage.

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@scaling01 „I wrote a hell of a book!”

Seriously, good read. Thank you!

[Greg @GregFeingold]

Ready to make the switch?

https://t.co/foaJ4CKJmG

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@APompliano Lifelong learner: please continue to do this.

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@nexta_tv Clickbait. There was no danger.

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

Incredible aerosol reaching Val Veny bottom at 3 pm today! ❄️

The avalanche is coming from the slope below Noire de Peuterey (3773 m) and what you see here is the blast of the avalanche (=no danger) reaching the Val Veny (La Zerotta lift, 1520 m)! 💨

📽️ Via Meteo Valle d'Aosta

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

New art project.
Train and inference GPT in 243 lines of pure, dependency-free Python. This is the *full* algorithmic content of what is needed. Everything else is just for efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further.
https://t.co/HmiRrQugnP

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@mthschmbrln @rospigge60559 You have serious misconceptions about tax generation (among other things).

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@afshineemrani Even this screenshot is not the flex you think it is. He called _after_, and one viable interpretation of this could be to just cover his ass.

[André Leopold @Xindaan]

@gtorges @EberleSebastian Und selbst bei Fake News noch zusätzlich fälschen. Bildunterschrift: 234, Zusammenfassung Otto: 236, und daraus wird „über 250“. 🤷🏻‍♂️