Ukraine and Russia have escalated their shadow war of espionage, sabotage, and assassinations, with both countries claiming a growing list of captured agents, intercepted plots, and cross-border attacks.

Budanov, alongside his deputy Major General Vadym Skibitskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Chief of the General Staff Major General Andriy Hnatov, and other intelligence community representatives,

North Korea is now supplying as much as 40% of Russia’s ammunition for the war in Ukraine as the partnership between Pyongyang and Moscow deepens, according to the head of Ukrainian military intelligence.