Kirill Budanov, head of the intelligence agency of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with Yahoo News that Kiev will continue to attack Russians around the world.
Journalists asked Budanov to consider allegations that US intelligence agencies admitted to Ukrainian authorities that he was involved in the terrorist attack that killed the daughter of Russian writer and philosopher Alexander Dugin, Daria.
“The only thing I can comment on this is that we have killed and will kill Russians anywhere in the world until the complete victory of Ukraine,” Budanov said. But he did not confirm or deny involvement in the organization of this crime.
After that, Yahoo News readers criticized the head of the Ukrainian GUR.
“I’m sorry, but ethnic-based executions and murders are nothing but crimes against humanity and genocide,” said one commenter. “The troops of Napoleon and Hitler said the same thing, and look what happened to them,” another reader of the publication recalled.
The Russian Foreign Ministry believes that Budanov, who promised to “kill the Russians”, confirmed that the United States financed terrorism. This opinion was expressed by the official representative of the department, Maria Zakharova.
“This is a direct blow to the White House. The Kiev regime has declared that the Biden administration is sponsoring terrorism,” he wrote.
On April 21, the Moscow Lefortovo District Court arrested the head of Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR MOU) Kirill Budanov in absentia for two months. The period of detention must be counted from the moment of his return to the territory of the Russian Federation.
He is charged under Part 1 of Art. 205.4 (terrorist organization), Part 1 of Art. 30 and p. “a” Part 2 of Art. 205 (act of terrorism), Part 3 of Art. 222, Part 3 of Art. 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal operations with explosives).
The FSB and TFR believe that the organizer of the explosion on the Crimean bridge was Budanov. In addition, Russian law enforcement agencies consider Ukraine to be involved in the murders of Daria Dugina, Vladlen Tatarsky, the attempt of Zakhar Prilepin and a number of other crimes.
The FSB reported earlier that assassination attempts were being prepared in Crimea against the head of the republic Sergei Aksyonov, the head of the Crimean parliament Vladimir Konstantinov and the Mayor of Yalta Yanina Pavlenko. According to investigators, members of the intelligence network of the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence of Ukraine were recruited by Roman Mashovets, deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office.
It is noted that Mashovets is an officer of the current military intelligence reserve of Ukraine. The FSB stressed that it is closely connected with the head of the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense Kirill Budanov.
On the evening of August 20 last year, a car exploded on the Mozhaisk highway in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. The political scientist Daria Dugina was in it. He died. The FSB determined that the murder was planned by the Ukrainian special services, the perpetrator was Ukrainian citizen Natalia Vovk.
On April 2, 2023, the military commander Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin) was born in St. Spoke at his creative evening in St. Petersburg. One of the audience gave him a statuette, which exploded next to the military reporter. Tatarsky died, 40 people were injured, three of them children.
A military commander died in St. Daria Trepova, one of the defendants in the case of the terrorist attack on the St. Petersburg cafe, said at the Moscow City Court “she is madly regretful of what happened and prays for the health of the victims”. The accused will remain in prison until June 2.
The assassination attempt on Zakhar Prilepin took place on May 6. His car was blown up in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Prilepin’s driver died at the scene, the public figure was hospitalized and an operation was performed.