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2022: Financing of Ukraine during the military special operation of Russia

Sources of funding for the government of Ukraine during the military special operation of Russia in mid-April 2022

2021

EC fell victim to Israeli spyware

Senior officials of the The European commission in 2021 were are attacked espionage ON production of a certain the Israeli company. This became known on April 11, 2022.

In particular, the victims of the espionage program were Belgian politician Didier Reynders, who has been the European Commissioner of Justice and the Rule of Law since 2019, and at least four other EC members.

The EC became aware of the cyber attacks after their victims, who own the iPhone, received appropriate notifications from Apple in November 2021.

The source was unable to establish whether anyone was behind the cyber attacks, or whether these cyber attacks were successful.

As information security experts previously reported, thousands of iPhone owners who received notifications from Apple in February-September 2021 that their devices could have been hacked by hackers working for the government were attacked with ForcedEntry malware.

ForcedEntry is a high-tech tool from Israeli commercial spyware maker NSO Group that allows intelligence agencies to remotely seize control of the iPhone. The lesser-known Israeli spyware provider QuaDream also sold very similar tools to its government customers.

According to representatives of the NSO Group, the company is not responsible for the hacks, and such attacks "are not possible^[1] tools as^[2].

Creation of a single group in the EU to combat hackers

At the end of June 2021, the European Commission created a new unified group to combat hackers as part of the EU Cybersecurity Strategy, so that all member states are ready for collective work and active exchange of information. Read more here.

2020: Allocation of €600 million to Ukraine to combat COVID-19

In early December 2020, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the European Commission had allocated €600 million in macro-financial assistance to Ukraine. These funds will be used to combat the consequences of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Zelensky thanked the head of the EC Ursula von der Leyen (Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen) and said that the funds provided are "a clear sign that the European Union supports macroeconomic stability and the course of Ukraine's reforms." Read more here.