Budanov rejects possibility of "Georgian scenario" for Ukraine
The head of the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, believes that the internal "Georgian scenario" of the development of events in Ukraine is impossible.
He said this on the air of a national TV channel.
"As of now - no. Definitely not. It is impossible. After all, even if someone wanted to turn, say, towards Russia – it simply will not work. And the events that we see in our society (probably, the head of the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine meant protests against the law on NABU – Ed.), once again confirm this. Now it is impossible," Budanov assured.
At the same time, the head of the Defense Intelligence does not rule out that the situation may change in the future.
"But the question is, what will happen next? As I said before: if we all don't change and start taking what is seriously, different things can happen. It's not about the most pleasant ones, as they say," Budanov said.
He gave examples of other countries that ceased to exist at one time or another in history.
"I collect stamps, I'm a philatelist... Looking through my collection, at some point I realized that a lot of the countries whose stamps I look at no longer exist. And that wasn't so long ago. So, all this talk about "some country can't just take and disappear because of certain events" is a lie. Even about seven countries in Europe have ceased to exist. Therefore, we need to seriously think about what we are doing and where we should be moving," the head of the Defense Intelligence reminded.
In his opinion, the fate of our state will depend on how seriously Ukrainians are aware of the challenges and can independently formulate their strategic goal.
"We must clearly define for ourselves: if we do not do this, they will try to impose it on us. So it is better to make our own strategic goal: who we are, where we are going. And then choose the tools that we need to achieve this. Because otherwise we can simply be the plot of another stamp, relatively speaking," Budanov concluded.