{"id":25498,"date":"2024-11-27T17:41:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T14:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/2024\/11\/27\/budanov-corruption-incompetence-and-lack-of-strategic-vision-lead-to-anti-state-decisions\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T18:38:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T15:38:55","slug":"budanov-corruption-incompetence-and-lack-of-strategic-vision-lead-to-anti-state-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/2024\/11\/27\/budanov-corruption-incompetence-and-lack-of-strategic-vision-lead-to-anti-state-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Budanov: &#8220;Corruption, incompetence and lack of strategic vision lead to anti-state decisions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, commented on the Skhemy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CWCgEppzOdg\">investigation into <\/a> Ukraine&#8217;s transfer of strategic bombers and missiles to Russia in the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Corruption, incompetence and lack of strategic vision lead to anti-state decisions. We, as a country and a nation that is paying an extremely high price in the fight for our freedom, have no right to allow such mistakes and crimes to be repeated<\/strong>,&#8221; Budanov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1GP24kjqDi\/\">wrote<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n<p>According to the investigation, in 1999, Ukraine transferred 11 bombers, 575 X-55 cruise missiles, and other equipment to Russia in exchange for the cancellation of $275 million in gas debts. The agreement was signed by then-Prime Ministers Valeriy Pustovoitenko and Vladimir Putin without the approval of the Verkhovna Rada. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1096\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/zobrazhennya_2024-11-27_163919938.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/zobrazhennya_2024-11-27_163919938.png 1096w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/zobrazhennya_2024-11-27_163919938-600x418.png 600w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/zobrazhennya_2024-11-27_163919938-1000x696.png 1000w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/zobrazhennya_2024-11-27_163919938-768x535.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1096px) 100vw, 1096px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;A very useful and important investigation indeed. I thank the Skhemy team for this important work&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>added the head of the DIU.<\/p>\n\n<p>According to him, some of the transferred weapons are now being used to attack Ukrainian cities. <strong><em>&#8220;We will be able to defeat the enemy and reliably protect Ukraine when we irreversibly change. The interests of the state should be the top priority for everyone,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; Budanov emphasized.<\/p>\n\n<p>The journalists identified several high-ranking officials as being involved in the transfer, including the then head of the SBU, Leonid Derkach, and Defense Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk. According to Olha Butkevych, a doctor of law, the transfer without parliamentary approval violated the Constitution of Ukraine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, commented on the Skhemy investigation into Ukraine&#8217;s transfer of strategic bombers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_eb_data_table":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1690],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/zobrazhennya_2024-11-27_163831730.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25500,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498\/revisions\/25500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}