OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense

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OpenAI today announced it will offer the Government of Ukraine access to its Daybreak program to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure. Working with the Ministry of Digital Transformation, OpenAI will provide Ukrainian teams with access to tools to identify software vulnerabilities and develop and test fixes more quickly.

The announcement was made on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly by Dmytro Kushneruk, the Consul General of Ukraine in San Francisco, and Sasha Baker, Head of National Security Policy at OpenAI.

Ukrainian defenders face persistent cyber attacks from Russia, alongside physical attacks on the country’s infrastructure. Ukraine’s national cyber incident response team, CERT-UA, handled⁠ nearly 6,000 cyber incidents in 2025. These include