{"id":1321164,"date":"2025-11-16T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-presidents-office-is-digging-for-budanov-where-to-expect-a-new-blow\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:22:57","slug":"the-presidents-office-is-digging-for-budanov-where-to-expect-a-new-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-presidents-office-is-digging-for-budanov-where-to-expect-a-new-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky\u2019s Office Circles Budanov: The Next Political Strike Is Already Loaded"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The President\u2019s Office has stepped up its quiet war against Kyrylo Budanov, acting on direct instructions from the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Security Service to dig up compromising material on the GUR chief. The operation, insiders say, is part of a coordinated campaign to discredit Budanov ahead of his removal. Yermak, determined to sideline the \u201cinconvenient\u201d general and install a loyal replacement, is now driving a search that has already produced several telling \u2014 and troubling \u2014 findings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The next blow is expected to target the sphere of arms imports. To achieve this, officials plan to \u201crevive\u201d the SBI case against the former head of the state-owned enterprise Spetstechnoexport, Oleksii Petrov. Previous attempts produced a loud media scandal, but ultimately came to nothing. The noise faded, and no real revelations emerged. However, given the publicity already generated and Petrov\u2019s release, the organizers intend to push forward once again.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the SBU\u2019s Department of Military Counterintelligence \u2014 working in parallel with the State Bureau of Investigation \u2014 is trying to uncover anything at all about Inkompas LLC, a company involved in supplying defense technologies. The aim is either to link the firm to discredited figures from the Yanukovych era or to ignite a scandal over the fact that a UAE-based company servicing Ukrainian aviation equipment allegedly provided services to a Russian PMC.<\/p>\n\t\t