Kyrylo Budanov, head of Intelligence at the Ministry of Defense in Ukrainemade delicate statements in a recent television interview and even claimed to know how many years of life the Russian president has left Vladimir Putin -about whom he had mentioned months ago that he would have cancer-.
In dialogue with Sky News y USA Today, Budanov was blunt about the health of the Kremlin leader: “In our office, we expect him to die within the next two years. She suffers from serious illnesses as we had revealed months ago and we know from good sources that she does not have a long life ahead of her.”
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Once again, the spymaster of the government of Volodymyr Zelensky stirred also the theory that the Kremlin would intend to overthrow the president before he dies. “It is almost a fact. They are going to allow us to lose his life being president, ”she said with some confidence.
Then, he referred to the outcome of the war -about which he spoke with the same confidence as for the two previous topics-. For Budanova, It is possible that in mid-August the Ukrainian troops will be victorious: “If we continue to receive help like the one we received, I have no doubt that it will turn out that way”.
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Otherwise, he predicted that the armed conflict would last only until “the end of the year.” After introducing the topic, he declined to elaborate on how the Ukrainian soldiers plan to win the necessary number of battlefield victories to force a retreat from the enemy militias.
The Ukrainian president today urged the leaders of the G-7gathered at a summit in Germany, to “do everything” possible to end the war with Russia before the end of the year. Zelensky, who spoke by videoconference at the summit held at the Elmau castle in Bavaria, also called for “intensifying sanctions” and “maintaining pressure” against Russia.