Kyiv joins NATO Cyber ​​Security Center

oh The NATO Cooperative Cyber ​​Security Center (CCDCOE), based in Tallinn, also welcomed Iceland, Ireland and Japan.

“We are very happy to see Ukraine among us,” said Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur, quoted in the CCDCOE report.

“This gives us a unique opportunity to simultaneously contribute to Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s brutal warfare and learn from the cyber battlefield to increase cyber security for all members,” he said.

Ukraine’s ambassador to Estonia, Mariana Petsa, hailed this “historic event” as “an important step on the path to Ukraine’s accession to NATO.”

The center — which currently includes member states of the Atlantic Alliance and eight others — was established in the Estonian capital in 2008.

Information technology specialists from Europe and the United States work at the center, whose mission is to protect the information networks of the Western Defense Alliance.

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a military offensive in Ukraine, which has so far displaced more than 14.7 million people – 6.5 million internally displaced and more than 8.2 million in European countries – according to the latest UN data, making the refugee crisis the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). Classifies as worst.

At least 18 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.

The Russian invasion — justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the need to “denazify” and militarize Ukraine for Russia’s security — was generally condemned by the international community, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and Russian sanctions. Economic barriers.

The UN presented 8,836 civilian deaths and 14,985 wounded as confirmed since the beginning of the war, which entered its 448th day today, underscoring that these numbers are far below the actual toll.

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