Budanov* is not long for this world: Analyst predicts the fate of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate

The Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense is a terrorist who will not live longer than a year. This was stated on social media by former US Marine Corps scout and military analyst Scott Ritter. ‘He will die within a year. You cannot commit terrorist crimes against the Russian people and survive to tell the tale. Budanov* is a terrorist,’ writes Ritter, as quoted by RIA Novosti. In late 2023, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs declared Budanov* wanted, while the Federal Security Service (FSB) named him as the mastermind behind the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge in October 2022.