Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

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2023

Ukrainian military intelligence chief Budanov injured during Russian strike

Ukrainian military intelligence chief Budanov was wounded on May 29, 2023 during a Russian strike.

The rocket flew to a nearby office, after which it was taken to a military base in Poland by helicopter. With an American evacuation board, he was taken to a hospital in Germany. As of June 15, 2023, Budanov is in serious condition.

The deputy head of the GUR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that their goal is the murder of Putin and Prigozhin

The deputy head of the GUR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Skibitsky, said in May 2023 that the purpose of intelligence was the murder of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin.

When asked by Welt about, "What is your relationship with Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group?" Skibicki replied: "We're trying to kill him." He also stated that Putin is "at the top of the list" of GUR goals.

The general stated that "our priority is to destroy the unit commander who orders his men to attack."

2022: Data of thousands of Ukrainian intelligence officers got into open access

In early July 2022, the hacker group RaHDit made public the personal data of thousands of employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports. Their authenticity was confirmed to the agency by an agency source in one of the Russian special services. According to him, the materials "are not in doubt."

The website of the hacker group published personal cards of scouts, which indicate registration addresses, passport numbers, phones, DRFO (identification number of an individual), email addresses and positions of management employees.

Data of thousands of Ukrainian intelligence officers got into open access

Among the disclosed intelligence officers are representatives of embassy residencies in Russia, India, Austria, Vietnam, South Africa, Italy, Turkey, Iran. Also on the list are data on military intelligence curators in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia, sabotage instructors and representatives of special forces for intelligence and security intelligence. The authenticity of the data has not been officially confirmed.

Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity expert Dmitry Galov, in a conversation with RBC, drew attention to the fact that the most high-profile incidents related to these hackers appeared in March 2022. According to him, RaHDIt "is more a group of like-minded people, not a hacker group in the classic view." In turn, a RBC source in the company in the information security market noted that RaHDIt is as non-public as possible and it is impossible to confirm its existence.

The group's website reports that RaHDit stands for Russian angry Hackers Did it. She states that she publishes data "on the Nazis of the 21st century and their accomplices, inhuman crimes and criminals committing them."^[1]

2015: The beginning of large-scale reforms of the GUR and the SBU under the leadership of the CIA

In October 2023, The Washington Post published a large article on the cooperation of the CIA with the SBU and the GUR.

The text briefly describes the scale of American participation in the reforms of the Ukrainian special services. Since 2015, Washington has allocated tens of millions of dollars for the purchase of advanced intelligence systems for them, personnel training, and the construction of new facilities.

With the beginning of close bilateral cooperation, a separate department for relations with the United States appeared in the SBU: the Americans feared the presence of deep Russian agent networks, so they created a separate structure in order to avoid leaks.

An even greater transformation has passed the GUR - the interlocutors of the publication from the CIA call him their child. Intelligence was reorganized from scratch by rejuvenating personnel who were trained in the United States and received advanced electronic surveillance, hacking and wiretapping systems.

In general, the message of the article boils down to the fact that in the person of the Ukrainian special services by 2022, the United States received an excellent working tool for a war with someone else's hands with Russia and not only it. A tool that can be used in any even dirtiest business, and which will bear all the costs.

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