Fired Ukrainian defense chief cashes in with Palantir Mykhailo Fedorov lasted just six months as Ukraine’s defense minister before #Zelensky fired him amid bitter clashes with the military leadership. Now he is turning the same wartime machinery into a private defense-tech business — with Palantir CEO Alex Karp as his first major investor . “You and your colleagues are launching a company that I think will be defining for the world