Head of the Main Intelligence Agency (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, checked the positions of ...

Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, has visited Snake Island, the agency reported on Aug. 12.

"Whoever controls the island can at any moment block the movement of civilian vessels in all directions to the south of Ukraine" and also attack western Ukraine, Budanov said in mid-May 2022.

In the future, I’ll decide what I want to do,” Budanov said. This August will mark five years since his appointment. Asked about the milestone, Budanov replied: “If I survive.” ...

Russia plans to spend around $1.1 trillion on rearmament over the next 11 years in preparation for a potential large-scale war, Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said on July 22 ...

Russia has the capacity to launch as many as 500 Iranian-designed Shahed attack drones at Ukraine in a single attack, but doing so on a daily basis is not possible, Ukraine's military intelligence ...