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Hegseth orders pause in US cyber-offensive against Russia

The reported directive from the defence secretary comes during an American push to end the war in Ukraine.

Since returning to office, Trump has markedly softened the American position towards Moscow in eagerness to reach a deal to end the war - following Russia's full-scale invasion more than three years ago. It leaves questions over the strength of the US fightback in the cyber arena against alleged Russian hacking, election interference and sabotage efforts that have targeted the Western nations which have sided with Ukraine during the war. Senior members of Trump's team - who last month met their Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia, with the Ukrainians excluded - have recently defended their change of approach to Moscow more broadly.

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