diff --git a/cluster-provision/k8s/1.32/extra-pre-pull-images b/cluster-provision/k8s/1.32/extra-pre-pull-images
index 120d4e8225..0036af75b2 100644
--- a/cluster-provision/k8s/1.32/extra-pre-pull-images
+++ b/cluster-provision/k8s/1.32/extra-pre-pull-images
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ quay.io/kubevirt/cdi-apiserver:v1.58.1
 quay.io/kubevirt/cdi-controller:v1.58.1
 quay.io/kubevirt/cdi-operator:v1.58.1
 quay.io/kubevirt/cdi-uploadproxy:v1.58.1
+docker.io/istio/install-cni:1.24.1
+docker.io/istio/pilot:1.24.1
+docker.io/istio/proxyv2:1.24.1
 quay.io/kubevirt/cluster-network-addons-operator:v0.87.0
 quay.io/kubevirt/cni-default-plugins@sha256:825e3f9fec1996c54a52cec806154945b38f76476b160d554c36e38dfffe5e61
 quay.io/kubevirt/kubemacpool@sha256:afba7d0c4a95d2d4924f6ee6ef16bbe59117877383819057f01809150829cb0c
diff --git a/cluster-provision/k8s/1.32/provision.sh b/cluster-provision/k8s/1.32/provision.sh
index a340c63f19..b076eee0d8 100755
--- a/cluster-provision/k8s/1.32/provision.sh
+++ b/cluster-provision/k8s/1.32/provision.sh
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ export PATH="$ISTIO_BIN_DIR:$PATH"
 (
   set -E
   mkdir -p "$ISTIO_BIN_DIR"
-  curl "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubevirtci-istioctl-mirror/istio-${ISTIO_VERSION}/bin/istioctl" -o "$ISTIO_BIN_DIR/istioctl"
+  curl -L  https://github.com/istio/istio/releases/download/${ISTIO_VERSION}/istio-${ISTIO_VERSION}-linux-amd64.tar.gz -O
+  tar -xvf ./istio-${ISTIO_VERSION}-linux-amd64.tar.gz --strip-components=2 -C ${ISTIO_BIN_DIR} istio-${ISTIO_VERSION}/bin/istioctl
   chmod +x "$ISTIO_BIN_DIR/istioctl"
 )