Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov has called on Ukraine's partners to join the ranks of the IT coalition, which has already united 11 states.

"The IT coalition is an important long-term initiative, and we are grateful to our partners for their support. The initiative has already united 11 states and has accumulated enough contributions for the first purchases according to our priority requests," he wrote on the Telegram channel on Wednesday.

"We invite all our partners to join the IT coalition to be part of a technological breakthrough in this fight," the Defense Minister added. At the same time, he stressed that "Estonia and Luxembourg demonstrate real leadership and partnership as the countries chairing the coalition and help us attract new participants."

The IT Coalition is a special group of states within the framework of the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine (Ramstein format) led by Estonia and Luxembourg, which focuses on providing support to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the field of IT, communications and cybersecurity.

According to the Ministry of Defense, the coalition members are the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Japan.