Supporting digital skills development: Beeline Kazakhstan adds new high school to award-winning CSR programme Page 1

Amsterdam and Almaty, September 2, 2024 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON, Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), a global digital operator providing connectivity and online services (“VEON” or the “Company”), announces that its digital operator Beeline Kazakhstan, through its Corporate Foundation Zhyly Zhurek, is supporting digital skills development in Kazakhstan with the opening of a newly built high school with advanced technological facilities.

The newly built school in the village of Shelek, near Almaty, was opened on September 1^stwhich coincides with Kazakhstan’s “Day of Knowledge”. The school will serve over 900 children and is equipped with a state-of-the-art computer lab, workshops, laboratories and sports facilities.