Ukraine announces investments and alliances in cybersecurity, defense tech and telecoms resilience

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation and Andrius Kubilius , EU Commissioner for Defense and Space. (Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine)

By Kylie Bielby • Jul 12, 2025

Norway will invest approximately $2.5 million by the end of 2025 to support Ukraine’s cyber resilience, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine has announced. Norway has also joined the Tallinn Mechanism, an international initiative to strengthen Ukraine’s cybersecurity.

Norway will allocate the funding to projects intended to improve the cyber resilience of Ukraine’s civilian and critical infrastructure.

Launched in 2023 in response to ongoing Russian cyber attacks, the Tallinn Mechanism has already enabled dozens of initiatives to boost Ukraine’s cyber defenses, the Ministry said. Norway joins existing members Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. The EU, NATO, and the World Bank participate as official observers.

The news of Norway’s investment and membership of the Tallinn Mechanism was announced at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome, Italy. The conference, which concluded on July 11, also served as a platform to present a new joint initiative between Ukraine and the European Union. BraveTech EU will scale battlefield-tested defense technologies. The alliance comprises the governments of Ukraine and the EU, startups, developers, investors and the military.

BraveTech EU will launch in two stages and will begin with a seed phase (from fall 2025) that will include hackathons, establishing partnerships between Ukrainian and European companies and investors, R&D funding for Ukrainian and European startups, as well as testing for technology development in Ukraine for the needs of European defense companies. The second ‘scale up’ phase will provide grants for startups.

A cooperation to strengthen Ukraine’s telecommunications network’s resilience to attacks and outages was also announced in Rome. Vodafone Ukraine, Nokia and the Finnish export credit agency Finnvera signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to invest approximately $35 million to modernize Ukraine’s digital infrastructure.