A senior Ukrainian official has admitted that his country has assassinated “quite a few” Russian civilians who support Putin and his war to assert control of the Donbas region. In interviews first reported by The Times of London, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, who heads Ukraine’s military intelligence service, also promised more attacks are to come.
“We’ve already successfully targeted quite a few people,” said Budanov. He didn’t name any of the victims, but said “there have been well-publicized cases everyone knows about, thanks to the media coverage.”
Since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, several prominent Russian supporters of the invasion — and many innocent bystanders — have been killed or wounded in the campaign.
One of the most prominent such attacks happened last August, when a car bomb killed journalist Darya Dugina — in a possible attempt to kill her father, the political scientist-philosopher Aleksandr Dugin.
Like her father, Darya was a vocal supporter of Putin and his invasion. Both she and her father were sanctioned by the United States after the war began. Given her profile, it’s possible Ukraine may have intentionally murdered her in a sinister two-for-one act of punishment.
Most recently, novelist Zakhar Prielepin was wounded in a May 6 car-bombing, and Russian military blogger Vladen Tatarsky was killed at an April public appearance after a woman presented him a statuette with a bomb concealed inside it. Fifteen others were injured.
Here's a longer video of Tatarsky being given the bust of himself by a woman who called herself Nastya. He invited her to sit closer. It was made of plaster covered in gold paint. https://t.co/itNryquxZl
— XSovietNews 🇺🇦 (@XSovietNews) April 3, 2023
For perspective, a hypothetical parallel for this campaign would be Iraq’s intelligence service blowing up Iraq-invasion cheerleaders like Bill Kristol, Jeffrey Goldberg, Ann Coulter and Max Boot in 2003. Ukraine’s targeting of civilians doesn’t merely violate vague “international norms” that Washington pretends to hold dear — they are explicitly war crimes.
What’s more, if one accepts the definition of terrorism as “the intentional use of violence against civilians in order to obtain political aims,” Budanov has implicated Ukraine as a state sponsor of terror — one that’s received $37 billion in US military aid since the war started, and perhaps double that in other assistance.
Budanov isn’t merely an unapologetic terrorist, he’s a boastful one. “These cases have happened and will continue,” he said. Such people will receive a well-deserved punishment, and the appropriate punishment can only be liquidation and I will implement it.”
Graphic: BLOOD everywhere on floor as sources say popular war reporter Vladlen Tatarsky KILLED in brutal terror explosion in cafe in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
UPDATE: Sources say a woman hid an improvised explosive device (IED) and gifted it to pic.twitter.com/PGjbpOI7HB
— #SupportPalestine #BDS #Yemen #Kashmir #Assange (@ChristineJameis) April 2, 2023
In a separate interview with a Ukrainian YouTube channel, Budanov implied that any country could be witness to his killing of civilians who say or write the wrong things: “Outright scum will eventually be punished in any country in the world. Only elimination can be a well-deserved punishment for such actions.”
In addition to his brazen confession — which was almost universally ignored by Western media — Budanov told the YouTube host that the “Russian army’s potential for advancing is completely depleted, but it still has a significant defensive potential.”
With Ukraine’s long-awaited and much-hyped counteroffensive still in the wings, Budanov said, “[Russia has] erected a multi-tier defense system. Still, this isn’t the same Russian army that could have been expected to conduct substantial offensive operations.”
Ambitiously and perhaps delusionally envisioning an eviction of Russia’s army from all captured Ukrainian territory, Budanov said his country should seek a 60-mile demilitarized zone inside Russia. “This should be our goal. If they are not going to attack and don’t decide they want revenge in a couple of years, this shouldn’t be an issue.”
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I think teamusa is getting the spanking.
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All the stupid losers flying the Ukie flags had BLM signs two years ago. What will the newest fad among the uninformed be?
Nothing to see here. Just humans, being. We’ve always slaughtered each other over our beliefs. It’s just another system of control. Revel in it or revile it. It makes no difference.
You’re bathed in it. You were born into it.
Only those who want out will actually give this a passing thought.
Rapture ‘tards built this. Where’s the lie?
GEOFOR: Recently there were reports that former Vice President Mike Pence seriously intends to compete with Donald Trump in the presidential race of 2024. How do you assess his chances and why did he decide to take such a step?
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: Mike Pence has no chance whatsoever of prevailing over Donald Trump. Pence is running as a service to the ruling establishment. Spence is a pretend Christian Evangelical. Evangelicals don’t oppose Armageddon, because they believe they will be wafted up to Heaven, while those still on earth get consumed in fire. The Ruling American Oligarchy hopes that Spence will draw off the Christian Evangelicals from the Trump vote, thus reducing Trump’s margin of victory so that the Democrats can again steal the presidential election. As evangelicals are not very astute, the Democrats might succeed in derailing Trump and the American people. Pence, of course, would not become president.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/paul-craig-roberts-united-states-has-been-destroyed-its-ruling-elites
Apparently, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valerii Zaluzhnyi is gone , but forgotten , assassinated by ebil Putler no doubt. Next clown world puppet ready to die for the big shekels please step forward. Budanov this you?
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-52023-bakhmut-falls-artemovsk
Does Deep Shekel’s bitch have a body double?
Will the real commander n creep please step forward?
Yes.
This Ukrainian killer Budanov is establishing his bona fides for the murderers in the US MIC.
Since Ukraine is going to lose the war, as everyone including Budanov knows, he is getting his name out there, positioning himself for a golden parachute from the US MIC.
What was won ? Heaps of smoldering ruin mixed with blood, shit, steel and despair.
WTF is that painting behind Major General Kyrylo Budanov about? It looks like a Griffin using a Fruit Bat as a butt plug.
Gonzalo?
I assume that he’s either dead or wishes he was. For a guy as smart as he is, he seems to have set himself up for this. Very foolish to live behind enemy lines and publicly root for Russia and trash Ukraine.
This war is not Russia against Ukraine.. It is the globalists against you and your family…
The destruction of Ukraine by Russia is hardly a loss for the US Government. The US Government is getting Slavic people to kill Slavic people. If the US had it’s way, they would all end up dead.
Their next scheme is to start a war where the Chinese will kill other Chinese. Then they will then turn their attention back domestically, and get Americans to kill Americans… The US Government is profoundly evil, and is advancing the globalist agenda to depopulate and enslave the entire world population…