Microsoft extends aid for Ukraine’s wartime tech innovation

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Ukraine is counting on more Western technological support as its war against Russia drags on, with Microsoft pledging Thursday to extend its backing for Kyiv’s “extraordinary” wartime innovation through the end of next year. FOX13

pledging Thursday to extend its backing for Kyiv’s "extraordinary" wartime innovation through the end of next year.

Amazon has also been helping Ukraine with cloud storage, Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, said at the conference. Before the Feb. 24 invasion Ukraine had a law prohibiting government agencies from using the cloud, forcing data to be stored locally. In March, the government scrapped that law.The invasion triggered "extraordinary innovation" by the Ukrainian military, Smith said.

Artificial intelligence deployed by Kyiv, for example, is detecting and thwarting Russian cyberattacks "in the blink of an eye," according to Smith.

 

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