“A lot of people are already fed up.” This is how the head of Ukrainian intelligence Kirill Budanov answered the question whether Kyiv will “get” Solovyov and Simonyan

Here is a recap of his interview

The offensive potential of the Russian army is completely exhausted, but it has a serious defensive potential. They built a powerful layered defense. But this is no longer the Russian army that could carry out serious offensive operations. Now the Russian group in Ukraine is 370,000 military, more than 20,000 people from the National Guard and about 7,000 members of paramilitary formations.

PMC Wagner is as effective as possible, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is as inefficient as possible. The Russian command, out of envy, is trying to physically erase PMCs. Prigozhin's attacks on the Ministry of Defense are not an information-psychological special operation of the Russians. The worst thing is that for the most part 80% of what Prigogine says is true.

Are Russian propagandists targets for Ukrainian intelligence? Well, let's do it, we already got a lot of people. There are such media, public cases that become public. But if you get personal, I will be forced to answer you, as they say classically in all the special services of the world - we cannot comment, we cannot confirm or deny this information.

Alexander Lukashenko, whether we like him or not, is not an idiot. And he doesn't want a repeat of February 24th. Then his opinion was not particularly taken into account, he drew conclusions. Nothing flies from Belarus for a long time - this is the result of our comprehensive actions. For communication, our deputy Yevgeny Shevchenko was involved. To prevent Belarus from being drawn into the war. In order to prevent, after the displacement and flight of the Russian army, that from Belarus they will again try to enter or strike. As time has shown, as of now, this has been achieved.

This is an approximate retelling of an interview with Kirill Budanov for the program "Different People". Statements by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine have been shortened and edited to preserve the meaning of what was said.