Budanov called the reason why Ukraine has not yet won in the war with Russia

To spread: the Russian Federation, which has fallen into Ukraine on February 24, 2022 and has not stopped hostilities for the fourth year, it would have long lost this war if it was not for support from the outside. Ukraine could, with the help of partners, could return all the occupied territories, but the Kremlin has serious allies in the person of the same North Korea.

This was stated the day before the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Kirill Budanov during a meeting of the Kiev Association of Military Attache. "I want to draw attention to the fact that some countries are not quite fair. In his opinion, if the Kremlin is not stopped, hybrid aggression against the EU and NATO will only intensify.

"The aggressor state of Russia will increase hybrid aggression against EU and NATO states, if Moscow does not resist," he is convinced. The head of the GUR noted that Europe is already experiencing the introduction of the Russian doctrine of the "hybrid war". "We do not cherish the illusions. Putin's true intentions are to continue and exacerbate aggression.

It is now the purpose of the European Union and NATO, in which the Kremlin sees the main threat to the domination of the Russian authoritarian regime. Currently, only the first points of the doctrine of" hybrid war "are perhaps in Europe. And it will intensify, "-said Lieutenant General. Earlier, Budanov said that the enemy could spend a new wave of mobilization, although it will be "painful" for the Russians themselves. "Can the Russian Federation mobilize? Maybe.