Defeat against Putin? Ukraine intelligence service paints a grim scenario including a time frame

Frankfurter Rundschau Defeat against Putin? Ukraine intelligence service paints a grim scenario including a time frame Patrick Mayer • 4 hours • 2 minutes reading time "Everyone fell silent" Kyrylo Budanow, head of the Ukrainian military intelligence service, warns of an existential threat to Ukraine if peace negotiations are not concluded by summer. Kiev - Will Kremlin autocrat Vladimir Putin win the Ukraine war after all? Because Ukraine's strength is dwindling? A media report from Kiev is alarming. Ukraine war: Kiev's intelligence chief allegedly urges negotiations with Russia As Ukrainska Pravda (UP) reported on Monday (January 27), the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence service GUR, Kyrylo Budanow, urged negotiations on peace or at least a ceasefire with Russia by summer in a non-public session of the Ukrainian parliament. Otherwise, Ukraine would face an existential threat, the 39-year-old intelligence chief is said to have warned in a closed session with parliamentary representatives, according to the report. Budanow is actually considered a hardliner in the war with Putin's Moscow regime. He repeatedly reports, for example, military strikes against the Russian army in a pathetically lauded manner. Kyrylo Budanow is the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence service GUR. Defeat against Vladimir Putin? Ukraine's intelligence chief is apparently very warning The UP cites an unnamed source from the Kiev parliamentary session with Budanow. "First, the representatives of the General Staff spoke in detail in a rather complex but very informative manner. Then there were further reports. But what was most striking was Budanow's answer," explained a participant in the session in the Verkhovna Rada. The information cannot be independently checked and verified. Someone asked Bundanow "how much time we have left. Kyrylo replied with his calm smile: 'If there are no serious negotiations by the summer, dangerous processes could take place that threaten the existence of Ukraine,'" the meeting participant said according to the report. "Everyone exchanged worried glances and fell silent." The invasion army of Moscow ruler Putin has been on the advance in the Donbass in the east of the battered country for months. Losses in the Ukraine war: Russia is still on the advance Although the Ukrainians are attacking the Russian oil industry in droves, they cannot stop supplies to the front. To name just one military disadvantage. Even heavy losses among Russian soldiers and the North Korean soldiers sent by Kim Jong-un do not seem to be stopping Putin's forces. Did Budanov primarily want to illustrate the seriousness of the situation to the parliamentary representatives? Or does the "Hero of Ukraine", his highest military award, actually fear defeat in the war against Putin's brutal regime? (pm)