Budanov himself previously indicated to media that his wife basically “lives” together with him in his cabinet, despite not being an employee of the military’s spy service.

Budanov has been the chief of Ukrainian military’s Main Intelligence Directorate since 2020, and is well known in Russia for a string of contemptable remarks justifying terrorism and the ethnic cleansing of Ukraine’s ethnic Russian population.

The suspected attack on his wife comes against the backdrop of a broader scandal between Ukraine’s civilian and military leadership after Armed Forces Commander in Chief Valery Zaluzhny admitted to British media earlier this month that Ukraine’s counteroffensive had hit a “stalemate.”

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❗️WATCH LIVE: Putin addresses World Russian People's Council.

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⚡️ It is Russia that has blocked the path of those who are attempting world domination, we are fighting for the freedom of the whole world, Vladimir Putin said

❗️ Latest statements made by Vladimir Putin during his address to the World Russian People's Council:

▪️ It is Russia that has blocked the path of those who are attempting world domination, we are fighting for the freedom of the whole world, Vladimir Putin said.

▪️ Without a sovereign, strong Russia, a strong and stable world order is impossible.

▪️ We regard any outside interference as aggressive actions against Russia, and we will respond to this accordingly.

▪️ Any attempts to sow discord and split our society are a betrayal, we will not allow anyone to divide Russia.

▪️ The sanctions blitzkrieg has failed, Russia will increase support for sovereign entrepreneurship.

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🇷🇺 More Putin's statements at the World Russian People's Council:

▪️The humanities in the West are being thrown out and replaced by gender pseudoscience

▪️We will not allow anyone to divide Russia, we only have one

▪️The West doesn't need a big Russia

▪️Our historical regions have returned to Russia and we have become stronger

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🇷🇺 Full speech of the Russian President Vladimir Putin during the World Russian People's Council.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iranian media published a footage of monitoring the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower while passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

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⚡️The Russian Ministry of Defense assumes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces may use biological means due to the failure of their counteroffensive, said the head of the Russia’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense troops, Kirillov.

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During the special military operation, 17 cases of the use of chemical weapons components by the Ukrainian military to poison food products have been recorded, leading to the death of at least 15 people, Kirillov added.

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📹 One of the Grad shells fired by Ukrainian forces pierced the roof of a residential building in Donetsk. As a result of the Ukrainian strike on the Azotny microdistrict, five people were wounded

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🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Mehdi Farahi has confirmed that Tehran finalized plans for the delivery of Su-35 fighter jets, Mi-28 attack helicopters and Yak-130 jet trainers from Russia, Iranian news agency reported on Tuesday.

However, the Russian Ministry of Defense has not yet confirmed this information.

Farahi told the news agency that the three advanced military aircraft were to join Iran's fleet and that the process was underway.

In March, Iran's mission to the United Nations told Sputnik that the country had finalized a deal to purchase Russian-made Su-35 fighter jets, but information on the number of aircraft and the timing of their delivery has been classified.

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☄️ An asteroid may help scientists answer questions about the origins of humans

British scientists have begun studying samples taken from the asteroid Bennu (which, by the way, may collide with the Earth with a probability of 0.04%). Apparently, similar asteroids could deliver water to Earth in the distant past, thereby facilitating the origin of life.

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