He told RIA Novosti about this.

“Only the Pentagon’s budget for these purposes (cyber attacks. -

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) in 2023 will be more than $11 billion,” Syromolotov said.

Earlier, the Head of the Department of International Information Security of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Ernest Chernukhin, said that against the backdrop of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, the United States began official training of cybercriminal hackers.