IT Coalition delivers equipment worth €10 million to Ukraine
In July and August, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine received another shipment of equipment from the IT Coalition, valued at €10 million and funded by Luxembourg, Ireland, Belgium, and Estonia.
This time, the partners provided the following equipment:
- 6,948 laptops for units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as for the Oberih and Impulse information and communication systems and the Medical Information System;
- 318 charging stations;
- 2,304 communication devices;
- 442 monitors;
- Equipment for the data processing centers of the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- Network equipment for the Oberih information and communication system (ICS) infrastructure;
- Routers, switches, licenses, and other equipment for deploying software-defined networks in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Additionally, a separate shipment from Latvia included 1,000 routers valued at over €77,000.
This marks the fourth and fifth deliveries from the IT Coalition in 2025. In January this year, as part of the initiative, Estonia, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg provided Ukraine with equipment worth €3.3 million, followed by another shipment worth €7.5 million in February, and around €2 million in April.
“Thanks to this new delivery from the IT Coalition member states, we will be able to provide technical support to the AFU units implementing digital products and services.” I thank our partners for strengthening our technological capabilities,” said Oksana Ferchuk, Deputy Minister of Defence for Digital Development.
The IT Coalition is one of the Capability Coalitions within the framework of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Ramstein format). The Coalition supports the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defence in the domains of IT, communications, and cybersecurity. Current members of the Coalition include Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, and Japan, with Estonia and Luxembourg serving as lead nations.