Kirill Budanov said whether there really are significant changes among the military leadership of the Russian Federation.
Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov explained the changes in the military leadership in Moscow.
In an interview with NV, he called reports of mass arrests within the FSB exaggerated.
“To a certain extent, some purges have been carried out. But what most of the media say is a bit exaggerated. In the quantitative and qualitative composition of these purges. Yes, there are very significant changes among the military leadership, at the level of commanders of military branches, commanders in the army and etc. These are not very public people, and the media do not write much about this,” Bu said. Danov.
According to him, there are certain changes and the number of arrested people in the special services of the Russian Federation. For example, General Sergei Beseda, who was in charge of the FSB for providing operational information on Ukraine.
“By the way, the story of financing (the arrested co-chairman of the Opposition Platform for Life and Putin's godfather Viktor – ed.) Medvedchuk is connected with him. But that there is no “picture that everyone wants to see. No one is imprisoned in thousands, unfortunately. There are certain changes – they need to appoint a scapegoat. So they are looking for,” Budanov added.
Earlier in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry Defense Ministry reported that Russia is considering the possibility of including the occupied territories of southern Ukraine into the temporarily occupied Crimea and their subsequent integration into the Russian economic space.
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