As part of the international conference Infosec Kyiv 2025, a roundtable discussion titled “Cooperation in Cybersecurity and Protection of Critical Infrastructure: Northern European Countries and Ukraine” took place. The key outcome of the event was the establishment of the Nordic-Ukrainian Working Group on Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection.
The working group will function as a platform for collaboration, institutional capacity building, and implementation of innovative projects. Its priority areas of activity will include:
- development of decentralized cybersecurity infrastructure;
- capacity building and formation of a professional community;
- regulatory and legal harmonization with the European Union;
- protection of critical infrastructure;
- technical cooperation and innovation;
- training and knowledge exchange;
- engagement with donors and project development.
Anton Demokhin, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Digital Development, Digital Transformation, and Digitalization, emphasized that the creation of this working group is a real opportunity to develop an effective tool for productive future cooperation between Ukraine and the Nordic countries:
“For Ukraine, this is a chance to share its own experience. I am confident that this experience will be valuable to your countries, and our joint work will make the world more resilient in cyberspace and allow us to move more confidently into the future with its new technologies and challenges.”
Natalia Myshyna, Advisor to the Head of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, noted that the Ukrainian side is already cooperating with Northern European colleagues under memorandums of understanding on cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection, in line with the security agreements signed by the President of Ukraine.
"The established working group will allow us to deepen our cooperation, develop and implement joint projects with the private sector and NGOs that will strengthen resilience to cyber threats," she said.
Ludmyla Lemryni, President of the Swedish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, stressed that the next step for all members of the working group is to move toward practical cooperation, identify specific issues, and jointly find solutions.
“In this work, collaboration between government institutions and the business sector is extremely important,” she added.
Mykyta Poturaiev, PhD, Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy and Vice President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, also emphasized that the presented projects are practical in nature and hold significant potential for building mutually beneficial cooperation between Ukraine and its partner countries.
The event was organized by the Swedish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Ukrainian company InDevLab, with the participation of representatives from Ukraine’s State Special Communications Service, business sectors, and expert communities from Ukraine, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and other countries.
