Ukraine’s defense ministry said hackers linked to the Russian government attacked the website of the Ukrainian Naval Forces on Friday, posting fake reports about the international Sea Breeze-2021 military drills. The official website was restored within hours. The two-week naval exercise involved units from 32 countries, including 5,... #HackerAttacks #RussianHackerAttacks #UkraineunderHackerAttacks
“The largest crypto farm in Ukraine” was discovered last week in a warehouse adjacent to facilities of Vinnytsiaoblenergo, a regional electricity provider, reports Ukraine’s State Security Service, or SBU. The service released photos of the warehouse, with 3,800 PlayStation 4 consoles stacked from floor to ceiling. The SB... #CryptoFarmUkraine #CryptominingUkraine #HiddenCryptoFarm
A full plan, dated June 2020 “includes a ‘roadmap’ for the creation of a ‘vertically integrated aviation defense consortium’ that could bring $10 billion in revenues and investment, ” Time reports. The project lost momentum after Trump lost the election and Prince’s two main associates in Ukraine came under criminal investigation in New York. Prince’s sister, Betsy De Vos, steppe... #ChineseinvestorsinMOtorSich #ChineseInvestorsinUkraine #MotorSichUkraine
The websites of President Zelenskiy, the State Security Service and other institutions were hit by cyber attacks on Tuesday afternoon, the state service for special communication said yesterday. The outages last only a few hours. The Service did not say who was behind the attack. In the past, Kyiv has accused Russia of orchestrating ... #CyberAttacksonUkraine #CyberSecurityUkraine #ZelenskiyWebsiteCyberAttack
Apple opened an official office in Ukraine yesterday, Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov writes on Telegram. Through a future network of official dealers, Apple will sell imported equipment and provide authorized service and parts. #AppleopenedOfficeinUkraine #AppleUkraine
Data risk of the government’s Diia app is mitigated by the fact that the increasingly popular ‘government-in-a-smartphone’ app does not store data, but only displays encrypted information from other government registries, , Ian Bateson writes on Rest of the World site about Ukraine’s effort to cut government paperwork. “Diia has also passed two penetration tests, organized with the assistance of the Estonian e-Governan... #DiiaAppUkraine #governmentinasmartphone
Antonov Airlines’ An-225 Mriya, the world’s largest cargo plane, took part in the NATO drawdown from Afghanistan last week, carrying three British Royal Air Force Puma helicopters from Kabul to Karachi, Pakistan, and on to RAF station Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, the RAF reports. In six years in Afghanistan, this non-combat ... #AntonovMriyaAssistsUStroops #DepartureFromAfganistan #Mriya225 #MryiaAN225helpsUStroops
Yesterday Ukraine’s cyber police announced that they arrested six hackers behind a major ransom ware gang that had targeted international institutions, including four US universities , reports NBC News. In raids on 21 homes in the Kyiv region, police arrested seized computers, luxury cars and $185,000 in cash. The American targets of the Cl0p gang included: Stanford University, Un... #CyberpolicearestsHackers #UkraineCyberPolice
With 73% of Ukrzaliznytsia rail tickets now sold online, UZ plans to launch a cellphone mobile app by the end of this year, said Alexander Pertsovsky, Director of the state railroad’s passenger division. Within a year, Ukrainians could buy half of all tickets through smartphones, the railroad operator has predicted. #UkrzaliznytsiaTicketsonline #UZappfortickets
Next week, Motor Sich Airlines plans to sign a deal with Ukroboronprom for the completion of construction and leasing of two An-140 regional turboprops , reported Interfax-Ukraine. Once completed at the Kharkiv aviation plant, the 52-seat planes would become the backbone of an expanded domestic route network for Motor Sich. Ukreximbank is financing t... #An140turboprops #MotorSichandUkroboronprom #MotorSichUkraine
Italy’s Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane SPA is working with UZ to prepare by the end of this year a feasibility study for high speed trains in Ukraine, UZ acting CEO Ivan Yuryk has announced. Construction of a high-speed network linking Lviv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa and Kharkiv would cost as estimated $15 billion and would be completed by 2030. Italy fas... #FerrovieDelloStatoItalianeSPA #HighSpeedTrainsforUkraine #UkrainewantsHighSpeedTrains
With the Boryspil Airport Express train achieving 71% occupancies in June, Ukrzaliznytsia is increasing the trains to 22 a day. There are now hourly departures between 5:30 am and 9:30 pm. The 40-minute ride includes stops at: Darnytsia, the suburban rail station, and Vydubychi, the transit hub with a Green line Metro stop and... #BoryspilExpressTrains
Mykolaiv Locomotive Repair Plant has signed a contract to modernize 55 German-made locomotives for the Egyptian National Railways, the Ukrainian company writes on Facebook. The repairs at the ADtranz locomotives will be carried about in Ukraine and in Egypt. Serhiy Roi, the plant director, said: “The partnership is planned for a ... #ADtranz #LocomotivesModernization #MykolaivRepairPlant
SoftServe, the IT company based in Lviv and Austin, Texas, will build a high tech ‘campus’ on an extensive 13-hectare site of a former prison in a southern part of Lviv city . SoftServe, a global outsourcing giant with 9,000 employees, outbid six other companies last week, paying $14 million – almost triple the starting auction price. #LvivPrisonintoITcenter #SoftServeBuysLvivPrison #SoftServeUkraine
Oleg Denys, co-founder of SoftServe said of the former prison site: “The idea is to create a neighborhood where you can collect talents and have all the conditions for the development of these talents in the city, have futuristic offices, educational institutions.”... #SoftServeUkraine #SoftServewillbuildITcity
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyy enthused: “SoftServe is one of the coolest companies in the IT market today in Ukraine…There will be a school, a kindergarten, sports infrastructure, and there will be workplaces.” #ITboomukraine #ITukraine #SofServeUkraine
Metinvest plans to build a $1 billion modern cold rolling mill at its Ilyich Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, Yuriy Ryzhenkov, the company CEO announced to Ukraine 24 TV yesterday. He said: “Literally next week we will sign a contract for the construction of a new cold rolling mill. This is already a billion ... #ColdRollingMillUkraine #Metinvestproduction
UDP developers are moving ahead with three ‘IT cities’ – in Lviv, Kharkiv and Kyiv, said the company vice president, Vitaliy Melnyk. In September, the company will open its 18,000 square meter ‘business campus’ at LvivTech.City. With a total planned buildout of 110,000 square meters,... #UDP #UDPbuildsUnitCities #UDPdeveloperUkraine #UkraineUDPconstructioncompany
UNIT.City Kharkiv is to be twice as big, with 250,000 square meters of space, Melnyk told the press office of UFuture, the parent company. On this 9-hectare site, 3,000 square meters of school and office premises have opened. #TechnologyCenterKharkiv #UnitCityKharkiv
Renault and ZAZ, or Zaporizhia Automobile Building Plant, plan to produce 10,000 cars this year, rising from a seemingly terminal decline . Once Ukraine’s biggest car plant, ZAZ stopped car production in 2018. Last September, Renault Group signed an agreement with ZAZ to make cars for the domestic market. In the post-Soviet era, ZAZ pro... #NewCarProductionUkraine #RenaultinUkraine #ZaZandRenault
Seeking to get Ukraine’s weapons sales to Pakistan back on track, Ukroboronprom demonstrated the newest Oplot tank and the Skif anti-tank system last week in Kharkiv to Pakistani General Qamar Javed Bajwa. The de facto ‘CEO of Pakistan’, Gen. Bajwa is army chief of ... #PakistanBuysTanksfromUkraine #UkraineWeaponSales #WeaponsaletoPakistan
Bitcoin mining consumes as much electricity as Ukraine. Bitcoin consumes almost 150 TeraWatt hours, according to the Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index run Cambridge University’s Centre for Alternative Finance. By contrast, Ukraine generated 150 TeraWat... #BitcoinMining #BitcoinMiningUkraine #BitcoinUkraine
Ukraine plans to join the European Space Agency, and build its own cosmodrome and launch seven satellites into orbit , said Volodomyr Taftay, the Head of the National Space Agency (First Business TV). Building on Ukraine’s rocket legacy from the Soviet era, the government has allotted $542 million to spend on the sp... #europeanspaceagency #UkraienTechnologies #UkraineEngines #UkraineSetelites
Elon Musk’s Space X is to launch the first satellite, Sich 2-1-30, in December 2021 under a $2 million contract , reports Defense.ua.com. Last month, Ukraine’s government allotted $3.25 million to complete a second satellite, Sich 2-30. This earth monitoring satellite would be 85% for civilian use and 15% for m... #ElonMaskRocket #SpaceX #SpaceXsetelite #UkraineSeteliteforSpaceX
Italy’s AVIO S.p.A has signed a €6 million agreement with Dnipro’s rocket design and production companies to produce 10 engines for European Space Agency’s Vega launch vehicle. The agreement extends a partnership that commenced in 2004 and resulted in the delivery of 20 rocket engines. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said: “The expansion of participation in the European Vega ... #AVIO #Dniprorocketdesign #europeanspaceagency #rocketengines
From Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the 16th successful launch of Europe’s Vega light-class launch vehicle equipped with a Ukrainian engine was carried out on April 29 2021. Launched into orbit were the main cargo, a 750 kg Pléiades Neo 3 satellite, four cubesats, and the Norsat-3 observation microsatellite for the Norwegian Space Agency.... #PivdenneDesignBureau #Setelites #UkrainianEngine
Aerospace firm Firefly, owned by Ukrainian businessman Max Polyakov, raised $200 million in investments as the result of the first round of venture funding. The company’s value has exceeded $1 billion, according to a press release from Firefly. #AerospaceFireFly #FireFly
Major Firefly shareholders includes Dada Holdings, Astera, Canon Ball, Reuben Brothers SMS Capital Investments . Astera spokesman Jed McCaleb will now join Firefly’s Board of Directors. #FireFly #FIreFlyinvestors #Fireflyrocket
The company says that by the end of 2021 it hopes to raise another $300 million. They want to start a new round of attracting investments after the launch of the Alpha rocket, which is planned for July 2021. #Alpharocket #FireFly
Firefly Aerospace is a privately held aerospace company that provides space transportation services from low Earth orbit to the moon. Firefly offers launch, space travel and landing on the lunar surface using the Alpha, Beta, SUV and Blue Ghost platforms and participates in NASA space projects. In 2017, after bankruptcy, the company... #FireFly #Fireflyrocket #MaxPolyakov #NASA
Ukraine will supply gas turbine engines for Turkey’s new ATAK-II combat helicopters, reported the Ukrainian Military Portal. The 11-ton helicopters will be twice as large as current attack helicopters now produced by Turkey. Temel Kotil, General Director of Turkish Aerospace Industrie... #Atak2Engines #TurbineEngines #UkraineTurkey
U.S. intelligence agencies helped Ukraine foil 350 Russian cyberattacks during the first quarter of this year , US News reports, citing a Ukrainian embassy official in Washington. By comparison, Ukrainian security services interrupted 600 attacks during all of last year, reports Interfax-Ukraine. On Monday, A... #RussianSyberattacks #SyberAttacks #SyberSecurity
Future Russia-Turkey military production cooperation depends on Ankara’s moves, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov warned yesterday when asked by Interfax how Russia would respond to Turkey’s planned sale of attack drones to Ukraine. On Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister M...
The new engines account for half of a €170 million upgrade of the state company’s fleet . Work is to be done at the Ukrainian Danube’s Kiliya shipyard, about 50 km down river from the company headquarters in Izmail, Odessa. The company is talking to the EBRD and the Belgian government ab... #ebrd #EBRDandUkraine #EnginesforBoats
Poland’s BGK Bank has agreed to fund 60% of the first phase of Lviv’s Innovation District IT Park, the technology park has reported. The State-owned Bank, Gospodarstwa Krajowego, will loan €81.5 million for the €136 million first phase of development. With a first phase expected to be completed by ... #BGK #LvivDevelopment #LvivPark #RealEstateInvestments
During the first quarter of Brexit, Ukraine’s exports to the UK increased by 38% yoy, with IT services emerging as the top sector, said Vadym Prystiako, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Britain during the Ukrainian Prism discussion. “At this rate, Britain will become one of our main trade partners by the end of this year,” he said. Noting... #ITexport #ITforEngland #ITservices #ITukraine
The World Bank is discussing a $200 million loan for improving IT higher education , the Finance Ministry wrote on Facebook. The funds will be spent on computers and to tailoring university curricula to real world employer needs. The Digital Transformation Ministry has set a goal of... #DigitalTransformation #InvestinUkraine #ITeducation #ITukraine #worldbank
At least 1,000 highly skilled engineers would have been required to develop the code that hijacked widely used network software from US-based SolarWinds to deploy malware around the world, Microsoft President Brad Smith told the Senate Intelligence Committee in Washington Tuesday. Smith said: “We’ve seen substantial evidence that points to the Russian foreign intelligence agency, and we... #HackerattacksonUkraine #KarpathiansskiResorts #Luhansk #markarova #newsaboutukraine #PakistanTanks #RussianHackers #ukraine #UkraineandPakistan #ukroboronprom
