Dubai and Kyiv, December 1, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), announces that Kyivstar (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW), together with the WINWIN AI Center of Excellence under Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation, has selected Google Gemma as the base model for developing Ukrainian LLM, Ukraine’s own national large language model (“LLM”), leveraging Google’s Vertex AI infrastructure for computing power. As a strategic partner in this project, Kyivstar will operationally lead the development of Ukrainian LLM. The ...