The Economic Security Council of Ukraine investigates aggression in the digital sphere, potential tools for countering and deterring cyber threats, and advocates for the classification of cyberattacks as war crimes and restrictions on the transfer of technology to authoritarian regimes.
In 2022, the Economic Security Council of Ukraine and the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine (SSSCIP) published a joint study entitled ‘Cyberattacks, Artillery, Propaganda: An Overview of the Dimensions of Russian Aggression’.
The organisation also cooperates with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the National Cybersecurity Coordination Centre under the National Security and Defence Council (NCCC) and the Strategic Communications Directorate of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Secretary of the Economic Security Council, Ilona Khmelova, is a Council of Europe expert on cybersecurity.
In 2024, the Economic Security Council of Ukraine published a study entitled ‘Cyberaggression: Sanctions and Accountability’, and in 2025, a report entitled ‘Gaps in Cyber Sanctions: Forming a United Front’.
Since July 2025, the Economic Security Council of Ukraine has been part of the Trusted Tech Network, having signed a memorandum of partnership with the Association of People’s Deputies of Ukraine and the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue (USA), which also provided for the creation of a cross-party parliamentary group on secure technologies within the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The ‘Ukraine Technology Diplomacy Platform’ association was established in January 2026.
