President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this during an online conversation with the heads of major American companies during the opening of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), reported Ukrinform, referring to the press service of the head of state.

“Recording our data, protecting the data – both government agencies and private companies – was a very important fundamental step,” he said.

Zelenskyi assured that after the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, even the Ukrainian websites, which were subjected to the strongest cyberattacks, survived, in particular the portal of the Central Bank, the websites of ministries and the Presidential Office. . Also, according to him, data on the supply of weapons were preserved.

The President explained that this is possible thanks to the construction of the cyber security infrastructure.

“We established the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. And in every government institution, in every ministry, whatever he does, a management vertical is being built today, where there is a private CEO, a proxy for digitalization. And this network we established has worked,” he said.

He noted that the best IT professionals in the market are integrated into the government structure and various grant schemes are used to pay them market salaries.

The head of state also expressed his belief that investments in Ukraine are beneficial both for large enterprises and for our country, as new jobs will appear in Ukraine and business will get excellent results thanks to smart and professional Ukrainian specialists.

“Our employees are free, creative, they invest their intelligence in startups,” Zelensky said.

As stated in the OP, on the eve of a full-scale war, the Ukrainian side made a decision about the possibility of temporary storage of data abroad, and Amazon company was the first to react to a full-scale invasion and bid on Ukraine. An unlimited and free service for storing government records. In the first weeks of the war, 36 Ukrainian officials, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Health, ProZorro systems, All Ukraine online school etc. Transferred more than 60 critical records and systems, including In this way, Amazon made it possible to create a reliable backup infrastructure for Ukraine.

On the sixth day of the war, on March 1, a Russian missile struck the National Data Backup Center in the city center of Kyiv, where backup copies of state registers are kept. But no essential enrollment and no critical government service was halted, according to the Office of the President, and the state has consistently and swiftly responded to the rigors of war. In this way, the functioning of the state was removed from the physical and virtual attack of the Russian aggressor.