Microsoft will give Ukraine an additional $100 million of technology support
to strengthen a "digital alliance" protecting the country, the firm's
vice chairman said on Thursday.
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Brad Smith said Ukraine would be able to use Microsoft's cloud services and
data centres across Europe during the entire 2023.
He told a news conference on the sidelines of the annual Web Summit tech
meeting in Lisbon that Microsoft's total commitment to Ukraine was now $400
million.
Ukraine has put technology at the centre of its war effort, stressing the
importance of cybersecurity and the centrality of online services from
education to health.
"Part of what this war has shown is that one needs to move services to
the cloud in a time of war to ensure their resilience and security," said
Smith.
He said the new commitment would "enable the government and other
businesses in Ukraine to continue to run their services and serve Ukraine
citizens".
He said Microsoft was happy to be involved in "a digital alliance of
countries and companies and nonprofits standing together to support
Ukraine".
Smith was speaking alongside Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo
Fedorov, who laid out the details of a plan he announced earlier this year for
Ukraine to become the world's most digital country.
Ukraine has solicited the help of big tech firms in its efforts to defend
its borders against Russia's invasion, and secured a donation of Elon Musk's
Starlink satellite internet systems earlier this year.
However, Musk suggested recently that he would not continue to support the
donation.
Fedorov told the news conference there was "no problem with the
system", adding: "Everything is OK."
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