Moscow put Ukraine’s top spy on the list of legitimate targets
| Referring to the 2022 terrorist attack on the Crimea bridge, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service said that the head of military intelligence of Ukraine should be a legitimate target of Russian forces. |
report Mehr News Agency, referring to the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge in October 2022, Aleksands Bortynakov, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service, emphasized that Kirill Budanov, the head of the Military Intelligence Service of Ukraine and All those who commit crimes against Russia will be legitimate targets for Moscow’s forces.
In December 2023, a court in Moscow accused Yeh Budanov of planning more than a hundred terrorist attacks with drones on Russian civilian infrastructure and issued an arrest warrant for him on terrorism charges. .
Budanov has openly supported an attack on Russian territory, including territories that Kiev considers under Moscow’s rule. At first, he called these attacks “partisan activities and operations” and later accepted the responsibility on behalf of Kiev.
Burtynakov said in response to a question about Budanov and other senior Ukrainian intelligence officials: Those who commit crimes against Russia and its citizens are legitimate targets.
In response to why Moscow has not yet taken action against these legitimate goals, he emphasized that “this possibility is still under action.”
Russia’s Federal Security Service initially identified Budanov as the mastermind of the October 2022 Crimean bridge bombing. That attack was carried out by a truck driver with high explosives, and during which he and four people were killed near the car bomb.
