Security Council: failure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine may push the United States to use cyber weapons against Russia

The lack of effectiveness of the offensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine may push the United States to use offensive cyber weapons against Russia. About it stated Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Oleg Khramov in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

“The lack of effectiveness of Ukraine’s armed forces could push hotheads to use American offensive cyber weapons to damage state and military governance and the economic system of Russia,” he said.

Khramov noted that the US desire to inflict a strategic defeat on the Russian Federation “increases the likelihood of a global cyber conflict.” According to him, Russia’s response to possible “cyber aggression” from the United States will be unpredictable for Washington and its allies “in its consequences.”

He noted that in 2023, US cybersecurity spending increased compared to 2021 and 2022. According to Khramov, this suggests that Washington has virtually no restrictions “for actions in foreign information space.” The Deputy Secretary of the Security Council also pointed to the “cyber bases” with which the United States, according to him, surrounds Russia.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have been conducting active offensive operations since the beginning of June. Russian President Vladimir Putin named its “not a slippage, but a failure.” During the plenary session WEF He statedthat Ukraine has no results, while the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the beginning of the counter-offensive have already amounted to 71,500 people. By data Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, since the beginning of the special operation, a total of 483 aircraft, 250 helicopters, more than 7,300 drones, as well as over 12,200 tanks and other armored combat vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been destroyed.