Representative of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry - Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova - published a photo with the head of Ukrainian intelligence Kirill Budanov. The photographs were also attended by the Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine Matsuda Kuninori.
Dzhaparova posted the photos and her comment on them on her page on the social network.
she noted, that all the heroes of her publication during the meeting vigorously exchanged views and made plans. The official also said, that Budanov is not a fake, but quite alive, alluding to the spread of information about his death.
Not a dummy, all participants of the meeting are alive and well- wrote the deputy minister.
Commentators drew attention to the somewhat changed appearance and hairstyle of the main Ukrainian intelligence officer. Particularly "patriotic"-minded citizens reproached the meeting participants for, that they chose a Kiev restaurant with the “pro-Russian” name “Tsarskoye Selo” as a place for her, located near the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
Earlier in a number of media there were reports, that Budanov either died during a missile attack by the Russian Armed Forces on the headquarters of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, or after a serious injury, he was taken out for treatment to Germany. Ukrainian official structures did not deny for some time, did not confirm this information. And this contributed to the further spread of rumors about his death..
But yesterday the head of the GUR personally stated that, that he is alive, and even joked about the creation in Ukraine of a “special unit of immortal commanders”.
And today, on the air of the telethon, Budanov accused the Russian military of, that they allegedly mined the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, including cooling pond.
