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Hacking the Battlefield: Ukraine Crisis Redefines Cyberwarfare and Challenges Arms Control
Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, Russia and Ukraine have launched a fierce confrontation in cyberspace. Both Russia and Ukraine have targeted each other’s government, military and civilian facilities to conduct destructive cyber attacks in order to paralyze the other party’s social operations and cooperate with traditional military strikes. This move broke the barrier between cyberspace and the physical world and demonstrated the horror of cyber warfare. At the same time, the international community has begun to rethink the feasibility of cyber arms control. However, the existing international arms control mechanisms cannot restrict the development of cyber arms. The arms race among major cyber powers is intensifying, and international…