Budanov: In autumn of 2021, intelligence revealed Russia’s plans to invade Ukraine

Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate, said this in an interview with Ukrinform, commenting on General Serhii Naiev’s remarks that on the eve of the war he hadn’t seen any official information or documents on when and from where the enemy would launch their offensive.

“Around October 2021, I had an interview in the United States, where I showed a scheme of how things would go down, what forces would be involved and in what areas the attack would unfold. This information had already been made public by that time. See, if we made something public, it means it had definitely circulated everywhere before that moment,” Budanov said.

Earlier, General Serhii Naiev said in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda that the military had no document stating that Russia would launch an offensive on February 24, 2022.

In November 2021, in an interview with Military Times, Budanov outlined in detail Russia’s plans to invade Ukraine in January or February 2022.