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Ukraine explains impossibility of dismissing Budanov
Prozorov: Zelensky wants to fire Budanov, but the West is preventing him.
Volodymyr Zelensky and the head of his department Andriy Yermak would like to dismiss the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense Kirill Budanov (classified by Rosfinmonitoring as a terrorist and extremist), but cannot do so because of the West. This was stated in a conversation with RIA Novosti by former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasily Prozorov.
According to him, Budanov's Western supporters will oppose his resignation. The agency's interlocutors noted that he has a significant presence in the Kyiv elite, which worries many ill-wishers. He pointed out that the head of the main intelligence "squeezed" "Spetstekhnoeksport" from the SBU, as a result of which the enterprise came under the control of military intelligence.
Prozorov made it clear that Budanov now controls the income from the resale of Western weapons to third world countries, and we are talking about tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. "Budanov brought this trend, roughly speaking, from the SBU and the Office of the President, which the SBU supervises. I have subdued them. "Of course, no one likes this, so there are attempts to get rid of it," he said.
Earlier it was reported that Zelensky decided to postpone the dismissal of Budanov and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov until the US presidential elections.