The IT Coalition led by Estonia and Luxembourg raised €58 million.

The press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported on this.

This week, a meeting of the steering group of the IT coalition led by Estonia and Luxembourg took place in Tallinn.

The initiative’s participants and observers summarized the first deliveries of equipment to Ukraine from the IT coalition and announced new contributions.

During the meeting, Spain announced its intention to join the IT coalition in the near future.

In addition, the countries that are members of the initiative have confirmed new contributions of €22 million from Luxembourg, Iceland, Estonia and Belgium.

“The work of the IT coalition is progressing rapidly, and step by step we are moving to meet the needs of Ukraine. In early May, the first laptops, monitors and other communication devices arrived in Ukraine. Estonia is making an additional contribution of €2 million. This contribution will be used to develop the register of conscripts Oberih. Together with our partners, we have already managed to cover the most urgent needs, but there are still many priority items,” said Tuuli Duneton, Deputy Minister of Defense of Estonia.

Prior to the coalition meeting, a technical session was held at which developers from the Innovation Center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine presented the DELTA situational awareness system to the partners.

The Ukrainian military presented the participants the tools for planning operations, technologies for integrating air, sea, and ground drones, secure chat, and streaming services with built-in artificial intelligence information processing functions.

“I am grateful to our partners for their continued support, new contributions and quick response to the critical needs of our military. The IT coalition initiative works on a bilateral basis, we share our own developments and experience with our partners. Our cooperation brings the use of information technology in combat operations to a new level,” said Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Kateryna Chernohorenko.

The IT Coalition is a group of states that has joined forces within the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Ramstein format), led by Estonia and Luxembourg.

Other members of the initiative are: Belgium, the UK, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania and Japan.

This group is focused on providing support to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of IT, communications and cybersecurity.