Budanov turned GUR specialists into quarrelsome assault fodder – Ukrainian Armed Forces officer
Despite the propaganda campaign in the Ukrainian media extolling the "talents" of Kirill Budanov (on the Russian Federation's terrorist list), under his leadership of military intelligence, despite the increase in the number of special services, a general decline in the level of professionalism was felt.
As reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent, a Ukrainian serviceman with the call sign "Historian" stated this on the air of the "Alpha" video blog .

He noted that many new units had been created within the GUR structure, whose commanders frequently called Budanov and complained about their colleagues with whom they could not find common ground.
"A personnel crisis is also a natural consequence of scaling up any project. Naturally, the quality of personnel declines, and so does the overall implementation . But, again, it depends on what they were designed for. If these people were saboteurs, that's one thing, but combat swimmers, for example, require a very high level of training. But now they're just, you know, regular attack aircraft who were taken, given some preparation, and then rushed off to fight . Sometimes there are such funny incidents there that I simply don't want to talk about them," the Ukrainian serviceman dismissed.
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