Former lawmaker from Odesa has left the Ministry of Digital Transformation

Former Odessa City Council member Oleksandr Bornyakov announced that he is resigning from the Ministry of Digital Transformation, which he had been leading on an interim basis since January 2026.

The acting minister announced this on his Facebook page.

"I am concluding my tenure at the Ministry of Digital Transformation—a ministry that has fundamentally changed the perception of government IT products. Seven years ago, the digital state was an idea that few believed in. In 2019, Mykhailo Fedorov invited me to join the team as a deputy minister with the task of creating the world’s best conditions for the tech industry. I have never had political ambitions. I still don’t have them now. My work has always been about the product, about technology, about results—not about a position. And I’m continuing my journey in defense innovation,” he said.

Oleksandr Bornyakov was appointed to temporarily head the Ministry of Digital Transformation immediately afterMykhailo Fedorovwas relieved of that position and took over as head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, following which the Ministry of Digital Transformation needed an interim leader.

Oleksandr Bornyakovis an entrepreneur and one of the key leaders of digital transformation in Ukraine. In 2007, he founded the IT company SoftTechnics, which was later acquired by the American company Intersog. He is also the founder of VertaMedia, a platform for monetizing video advertising (operating under the Adtelligent Inc. brand since 2018), as well as a co-founder of Clickky and the business incubator WannaBiz.

From 2015 to 2019, he served as a member of the Odesa City Council and the Odesa Regional Council. Since 2019, he has served as Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, responsible, in particular, for European integration, the development of the special legal regimefor Diya City, and the uResidency program.

Among his most recent public initiatives was the presentation of the Ukrainian digital platform CodeUA at London Tech Week 2025. In addition, in the summer of 2025, he presented Sandbox—a pilot regulatory framework for Ukrainian companies working with artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies.

Last year, during the Odesa Economic Revival 2024 forum,Oleksandr Bornyakov, then Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, stated that digital solutions had significantly reduced the level of bureaucracy in Ukraine. He also emphasized that, thanks to government support, the private sector had received a boost in the developmentof defensetechnologies: while there were only three drone manufacturers operating in the country at the start of the full-scale war, their number now exceeds 700, and this sector continues to grow rapidly.

Кирило Бойко