Ukraine’s top spy chief promised extra intense offensives on Russian-occupied territory in Crimea quickly, claiming that the Russian army has proved weaker than anticipated.
Kyrylo Budanov, who serves as chief of the Ukrainian Ministry of Protection’s Important Directorate of Intelligence, mentioned that 2024 will see a lot higher efforts to reclaim territory in Crimea.
“In 2023, the first Ukrainian incursions took place in temporarily occupied Crimea,” Budanov mentioned in an interview with French outlet Le Monde. “And this is just the beginning.”
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Chief of the Protection Intelligence of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov offers an interview in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Vitalii Nosach/World Photos Ukraine through Getty Photos)
Budanov acknowledged the 2 nations’ mutual incapacity to make substantive land positive factors as each are dug into trenches on the entrance traces.
“The very intensive use of attack drones has made both Russian and Ukrainian offensives impossible,” he mentioned of the territorial stalemate, including that “another factor has been the density of minefields, unprecedented since World War II.”
The spy chief additionally took a swipe on the Russian military’s strength, saying that the continued battle of the Ukrainian defending forces has proven the Russian Armed Forces to be much less efficient than beforehand believed.
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Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov throughout a presentation of a commemorative coin devoted to Important Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine on September 5, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Viktor Kovalchuk/World Photos Ukraine through Getty Photos)
“A certain Russian paradox surprised me. Everyone thought that Moscow had a strong army and a weak economy. It turns out that the opposite is true,” Budanov mentioned.
He continued, “The economy may be weak, but the country is not starving, far from it. It could even last quite a long time at this rate.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy won’t think about a cease-fire with Russia, claiming it could solely assist the invading army bolster its energy.
Rescuers work at a web site of a destroyed house constructing after a Russian assault in Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP Picture/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Zelenskyy made the feedback throughout a go to to Estonia meant to lift assist for continued funding of the war effort.
“A pause on the Ukrainian battlefield will not mean a pause in the war,” Zelenskyy mentioned.
“A pause would play into [Russia’s] hands,” he added. “It might crush us afterward.”
