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Profile of a spymaster: Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR)

Profile of a spymaster: Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR)

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Ukraine's intelligence chief is on a mission to win the information war.

Kyrylo Budanov runs the country's spy operations.

But the 37-year-old spymaster has built up an unusually public profile since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

Widely circulated official videos back up the theory that the work of a spy boss cannot stay in the shadows.

“This is the confl…

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