The head of the Ukrainian military intelligence service has commented on cooperation in the defence sector between Ukraine and the USA. The relevant commentary appeared on the official website of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry. In the agency’s material, Brigadier-General Kyrylo Budanov stressed the following: “Development of the roadmap for the implementation of the provisions of the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Defence Framework signed in August in Washington is of utmost importance for all analytical units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and for national security system in general,” Brigadier General Kyrylo Budanov, the Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine said.
The Defence Intelligence Directorate chief said that cyber intelligence and cyber security components, intelligence activities in general, should be a priority in the development of this roadmap for the implementation of the framework agreement, as the global world depends on cyberspace and information systems, and therefore intelligence activities are becoming more systemic and diversified.
In his commentary, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence noted the importance of implementing the framework agreement with the US: “We have to be in step with the modern world and very quickly adopt and absorb all innovations for strengthening the state’s defence. That’s exactly why the development of the roadmap to implement the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Defence Framework should become such modernization plan, analogue of which did not exist over the years of Independence in Ukraine. It is up to us to fill the document with specific projects, specific plans and deadlines,” he stressed.
According to Chief Kyrylo Budanov, our state is more interested than ever in effective cooperation and interaction with US partners. The level of their training, innovative and technical support in defence and intelligence activity, in particular the vast experience of special operations, is something that we need to adopt both for modernization of Ukrainian Armed Forces and further Euro-Atlantic integration of our state and society in the defence sphere. The Brigadier expressed confidence that the implementation of the framework agreement with the USA would open great opportunities for the modernisation of the Ukrainian intelligence service.
