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| The rise of Military Intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov ‐ NV profile |
| 2023-06-12 |
| Amazing! Ukie spelling? How does he find the time ? [New Voice of Ukraine] How Kyrylo Budanov went from the paratroopers to the recon scouts, the wounds he has sustained, and why he constantly rushes into the fray — the life story of the head of Ukraine’s HUR with all the details. On the evening of February 23, 2022, Kyrylo Budanov, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of the Ministry of Defense, brought his wife Marianna from their home to his office. At that moment, he knew for sure that in a few hours, Russian troops would attack Ukraine and there would be no time to worry about his family. Ukraine’s chief of military intelligence knew a lot at that point: the invaders would try to enter the capital and planned to eliminate the entire leadership of the country. Budanov also knew about Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's intentions to change the history of Ukraine in just three days, turning it into a Russian satellite. However, even he did not imagine that his wife would spend the first few months of the full-scale invasion with him on the Island — as the HUR residence on Kyiv’s Rybalsky Peninsula is unofficially known. Nor that the war itself would drag on for more than a year. Budanov did not know that 2022 would transform him in the eyes of his compatriots into a source of verified information about the enemy and fairly accurate military forecasts, expressed in an unerringly steady tone. And for the Russians, including in the highest levels of the Kremlin, the chief military intelligence officer of Ukraine would over the first year of war become the personification of Ukraine’s covert power, which lies behind daring sabotage operations in the Russian rear, including the explosion on the jewel of Putin’s neo-imperial crown, the Crimean bridge. Moscow's propagandists get nervous every time Budanov gives another interview calmly speaking about the inevitable collapse of the Russian Federation, showing a map of a dismembered Russia hanging in his office. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |