Mick Ryan
We are ushered into a room in the Kyiv area. A long table dominates the room. On one side of the table is a single nameplate with my name on it. On the other side, the entire length of the table has an extended line of nameplates. In the very centre is the name of the man I have come to see. Budanov.
Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov is the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence. He has been in this position for almost five years and has a reputation for creative, outside-the-box thinking and daring strike operations in occupied territories and deep inside Russia. He is also well known for his courage and has been wounded several times on operations.
The door opens and Budanov appears, accompanied by his deputy, Major General Vadym Skibitskyi. We shake hands and then take our places on our respective sides of the conference table. To break the ice, I offer to Budanov that, given the number of Ukrainian intelligence officers on the other side of the table, perhaps I am the one being interrogated. He smiles, and I then congratulate him on the previous evening’s drone attack on Moscow, the largest single mass drone attack in history.
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