How Luxembourg makes the Ukraine of Elon Musk independent

The IT coalition listed by Luxembourg and Estonia in the so-called Ramstein format has already provided Ukraine IT equipment for the third time this year. Kyiv reached the latest delivery on April 21. One Appropriate message by the online portal « The Kyiv Independent » the Luxembourg Ministry of Defense confirmed the « word » when asked.

According to this, around 3,300 access points that enable wireless internet access were delivered 500 internet routers, 460 charging stations with solar panels and 872 phones. Luxembourg and Iceland share the costs of this package of 2 million euros.

« With this equipment, we will increase the capacity for high -quality and reliable communication in the armed forces of Ukraine, which is of crucial importance in the fighting zone, » quotes « The Kyiv Independent », deputy Ukrainian Minister of Defense for Digitization, Kateryna Chernohorenko.

It is already the third delivery of the IT coalition to the country attacked by Russia in 2025. The package financed by Luxembourg in January, the Netherlands and Estonia had a value of around 3.8 million euros, the 7.5 million euros sent in February. Overall, Luxembourg has invested 25 million euros in April 2022 in April 2022 in the procurement of IT equipment in favor of Ukraine.

All expenditure of the coalition has so far amounted to 110 million euros. The IT coalition consists of 17 members, including Luxembourg, Estonia and Iceland countries such as Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Great Britain and Italy.

More independence from Elon Musks Starlink

In the Ukraine decline, both sides rely on electronic warfare and satellite communication. Shortly after the initially successful defense against the Russian major invasion, the US tech billionaire Elon Musk made his Starlink network available. After Donald Trump took office, Musk also sowed doubts about the further support and even threatened to switch off the Ukrainian access to the US satellite network.

In the meantime, the European Union has switched on and is trying to impart suitable European alternatives to Starlink. The French satellite operator Eutelsat is one of the possible candidates.

The cooperation between the Ukrainian company Stetman LLC and the Swedish manufacturer of satellite hardware Requetech will also be decisive.

The soil staff needs corresponding terminals to access Starlink. Around 50,000 of these Starlink terminals are currently still in use in Ukraine-and have been produced by Stetman for more than two years. It is planned that the Ukrainian-Swedish joint venture will manufacture corresponding terminals for access to the European networks of Eutelsat- und Ses (Luxembourg).

According to the Stetman CEO DMYTRO, production of between 2,000 and 10,000 units would be possible every month.