She noted that most countries were in favor of using ICT for development.

“Under these conditions, attempts to legitimize the use of ICT for military-political purposes against other states at the international level are unacceptable,” TASS quotes Tyazhlova as saying at a meeting of the UN Open-ended Working Group on security issues in the use of ICT.

On May 20, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that cyber aggression against Russia had failed.