General Kyrylo Budanov is Ukraine’s 37-year-old spymaster. As the architect of increasingly brazen operations within Russia, he is also a big irritant for the Kremlin
certain amount of fear to paralyse seasoned military-intelligence officers. But a Russian attack on the officers’ Rybalsky island headquarters in Kyiv in March 2022 crossed that threshold. The officers recall “terror” as missiles landed, windows popped and ramshackle buildings crumbled at the edges. The men, waiting in a reception area for a meeting with their boss, fell to the floor. Moments later a door beside them opened, and Major-General Kyrylo Budanov stepped out.
Ukraine has not claimed either operation. But General Budanov barely respects the official ambiguity. “We are at war,” he says. “Drones over the Kremlin showed the world that Russian defences are just a Potemkin village.” General Budanov has his adversaries at home as well as abroad. Competing security agencies fret about his power and resources. “It’s logical that military intelligence becomes powerful during war,” says one rival officer. “But you can’t get much done without his sign-off now.” Even friends describe the military-intelligence chief as “difficult”. Some find it hard to get on with him, says Brigadier General Dmytro Timkov, a partner on “dozens” of operations. “He doesn’t adapt to others’ opinions.
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