Since its creation in September 2023, the IT coalition has accumulated EUR 157 million in support of Ukraine.
This was announced by the Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
In particular, EUR 70 million of contributions, including the announced contribution of EUR 10 million from the Netherlands, EUR 87 million - from Germany in the form of SAP licenses.
From this amount, Ukraine received equipment and software worth EUR 99 million.
Equipment and licenses were procured centrally through the NATO Support and Supply Agency with contributions from Denmark and Luxembourg.
"Cyber security is one of the key directions of our work. Deliveries within the IT coalition will strengthen this direction, because the russians continue to attack our cyber infrastructure. Also, these deliveries will help to scale the projects of the Innovation Center and will contribute to the further implementation of the SAP system in the Armed Forces of Ukraine," said the deputy Minister of Defense for Digitalization Kateryna Chernohorenko.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the IT coalition headed by Estonia and Luxembourg is one of the 8 coalitions of capabilities within the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine (Ramstein), it is aimed at providing support to the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the fields of IT, communication and cyber security.
Currently, in addition to Ukraine, the Coalition includes 14 partner countries. Finland and Spain joined the Coalition in September, and several more countries are expected to join soon.
The Netherlands joined the IT coalition in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in January 2024.
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