The head of Ukraine’s GUR, Kirill Budanov, has stirred controversy by stating in an interview with Yahoo News that Ukraine will continue to attack Russians around the world.
This statement comes after the American intelligence services acknowledged that the Ukrainian government was involved in a terrorist attack that resulted in the death of Darya Dugina, the daughter of Russian writer and philosopher Alexander Dugin.
Darya Dugina died on August 20, 2022, in a car explosion on the Mozhaisk highway in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. The FSB claims that Ukrainian special services were behind the assassination and that the perpetrator was a Ukrainian citizen named Natalia Vovk.
Budanov’s statement is expected to escalate tensions between Russia and Ukraine, which have been simmering since the 2014 Western back coup that saw Crimea vote to join Russia.
The statement should draw condemnation from the international community but with the US and its NATO partners turning a blind eye to past atrocities committed by the Kiev government many expect this to go unreported in Western media. In 2014 the US government accused Russia of supporting the people in the Dombass and imposed harsh economic sanctions on Russia in response. Even though the Ukraine Regime cut off all power, water and pension payments to anyone in the Donbass.
Only Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have criticised The Ukrainian government for its treatment of Russians and Russian speakers living in Ukraine, particularly in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where Kiev forces openly started a civil war in 2014, which lead to the failed and deceptive Minsk agreement. An agreement that we now know the Ukrainian Regime was never going to implement.
Moving forward and in response to Budanov’s statement, Alexander Bashkin, a member of the constitutional committee of the Federation Council, has claimed that the attacks on Dugin and other famous personalities confirm to the whole world that Russia is fighting a terrorist regime. The situation is likely to remain tense, and it is unclear what the consequences of Budanov’s statement will be.
