Ukraine’s defence minister, Oieksiy Reznikov, has announced its association with the Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP). It is concerned with the technical cooperation of the NATO member states’ army.
Xinhua quoted Ukraine’s defence minister as saying, “Ukraine has strong IT (Information Technology) potential and it is a worthy NATO ally. I am sure that we will bring our expertise to the development of collective security. “
The membership of MIP empowers Ukraine to participate in the development and introduction of key NATO standards related to the combat control system and similar practices. Earlier, when Sweden and Finland were invited to attend the NATO summit by the Western military alliance, Ukraine’s President Zelensky prompted NATO to admit Ukraine to the alliance.
The situation in Ukraine has been worsening, with thousands of refugees taking shelter in the neighbouring nations. The European Union declared rewards in terms of economic packages for the nations hosting Ukrainian refugees.
EU commission president Ursula Von der Layen said, “So far more than 3 million people have left Ukraine. Half of them were children. I applaud the enormous generosity of all Europeans, all Member States, and Moldova. We propose to accelerate and inject EUR3.4 billion of liquidity to support EU countries hosting those fleeing the war.
As Xinhua suggested, MIP is a technological program developed at a national level which broadly aims to achieve interpretability of national C2IS systems
