We have publicly raised our concerns that these attacks against civilians violate the Geneva Convention. We have also acted against cyberattacks targeting several additional civilian sites. Since the war began, we have acted against Russian positioning, destructive or disruptive measures against more than 20 Ukrainian government, IT and financial sector organizations. We continue to work proactively to help cybersecurity officials in Ukraine defend against Russian attacks, including most recently a cyberattack against a major Ukrainian broadcaster. Our single most impactful area of work almost certainly is the protection of Ukraine’s cybersecurity. We believe we are most effective in aiding Ukraine when we take concrete steps in coordination with the decisions being made by these governments and we will take additional steps as this situation continues to evolve. In addition, we are coordinating closely and working in lockstep with the governments of the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom, and we are stopping many aspects of our business in Russia in compliance with governmental sanctions decisions. We are announcing today that we will suspend all new sales of Microsoft products and services in Russia. I want to use this blog to provide an update on Microsoft’s actions, building on the blog we shared earlier this week. Like the rest of the world, we are horrified, angered and saddened by the images and news coming from the war in Ukraine and condemn this unjustified, unprovoked and unlawful invasion by Russia. We will continue to update on our actions via this blog post. These actions add to those we have previously detailed on protection from cyberattacks, protection from state-sponsored disinformation, support for humanitarian aid and protection of our employees. We are continuing with the suspension of all new sales of products and services in Russia. Our Skype team has extended their free calling into and out of Ukraine by another two weeks, already providing over 6.5 million minutes of calls, helping Ukrainians stay in touch with the world.The team has received over 130 mission requests from government, nonprofit, and commercial organizations assisting those in need and will continue to work through additional requests. Microsoft Disaster Response teams have now worked on or completed 67 projects in less than four weeks to assist groups that are in or helping Ukraine.We have deployed cybersecurity technical protections to dozens of targeted organizations in concert with the Ukraine government as well as providing licenses and services that allow organizations in Ukraine the ability to operate by moving critical software services from on-premises servers to the cloud.As a result, we provided a list of exposed and vulnerable systems to the Ukrainian government that had unpatched high-impact common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) that could provide a foothold for attackers.
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