The Dutch government will allocate 10 million euros to improve the cyber resilience of the Ukrainian public sector: the funds will go to the British program to support Ukraine’s cybersecurity and the initiative of the Tallinn Allied Coordination Mechanism.
The Dutch government will allocate 10 million euros to improve the cyber resilience of the Ukrainian public sector: the funds will go to the British program to support Ukraine’s cybersecurity and the initiative of the Tallinn Allied Coordination Mechanism.
According to Military, which refers to a post by Dutch Foreign Minister David van Weel in X, the funding is intended to strengthen the protection of government networks, develop incident response capabilities, and train specialists. The priority is to increase resilience to systematic attacks carried out by the Russian Federation against Ukrainian authorities, infrastructure, and services.
Russian cyber attacks against Ukraine are not isolated incidents. This hybrid warfare campaign threatens European security. The UK is our valued partner in strengthening Ukraine’s resilience. Today, the Netherlands announced €10 million for the UK’s Ukraine Cyber Programme. ½ pic.twitter.com/nQL36hxBw8
— David van Weel (@ministerBZ) October 30, 2025
The Minister emphasized that Russia’s hybrid operations pose a risk not only to Ukraine, but also to the security of Europe as a whole. That is why The Hague is joining the British program and at the same time strengthening the Tallinn Mechanism, an intergovernmental platform for coordinating cyber assistance, which matches Ukraine’s needs with partners' resources and accelerates the delivery of technical support.
The allocated funds are expected to be used to upgrade monitoring and threat detection tools, deploy solutions for segmentation and redundancy of critical systems, training programs for SOC/CSIRT teams, as well as audit and certification of key services. Separately, joint exercises with simulation of real attacks on government IT systems are planned to practice rapid detection and localization of incidents.
The new contribution complements The Hague’s previous steps in the field of Ukrainian security: from air defense support to cyber resilience projects. The logic of the Dutch government is unchanged: reducing the effectiveness of Russian cyberattacks on the Ukrainian state simultaneously reduces the risks for European infrastructure, which is increasingly becoming a target of intelligence and sabotage operations.
After February 2022, Russian cyberattacks primarily targeted state registries, energy, communications, and local IT systems in Ukraine. To contain these threats, EU and NATO partners launched coordination formats, including the Tallinn Mechanism: it links specific requests from Ukrainian agencies (SOC, redundancy, DDoS protection, audits) with funding and contractors from allies. Separately, the UK funds capacity-building programs: monitoring tools, incident response, CERT/CSIRT training, and redundancy of critical services.
Previously, dev.ua wrote about how the Dutch government is preparing a new support package for Ukraine worth 90 million euros. The funds will be used to expand domestic production of drones: both reconnaissance and strike.
