on 29 March 2024, Petro Kotin, head of Energoatom , and Mikhail Verich, regional director of the United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF Global), signed an agreement on mutual understanding and cooperation, Energoatom‘s press service reported, Kommersant Ukrainian .
The head of NAEK noted that for the whole country is important the issue of countering information attacks of the enemy and the increasing number of cyber threats.
“I hope that the agreement being signed today will become the basis for expanding and improving the Company’s policy in the field of cyber security, information resilience and physical protection of strategic facilities”, – said Petro Kotin.
In turn, CRDF Global Regional Director Mikhail Verich emphasised that the Foundation’s specialists understand perfectly well the problem of disinformation and cyber attacks targeting Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and are ready to use all possible capacities to counter them.
Energoatom’s partnership with the Foundation will start and develop effective communication between the structures in countering growing threats in cyber defence, information and other areas of national security, the company added.
Just to remind you, as Enerhoatom reported, last week Ukrainian power engineers restored the power supply line to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which was damaged due to a massive Russian strike on 22 March.