The main task of this body is to prepare proposals for management, coordination and control of the activities of state intelligence agencies.
intelligence under the President of Ukraine after Ruslan Demchenko was fired from this position and the position of First Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council. “Liga.net” writes about this, referring to its sources in the OP and special services.
Kyrylo Budanov is an officer, since August 2020 the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense.
In April 2019, Russian saboteurs tried to kill him in Kyiv. However, the explosive detonated at the moment when it was being installed. As a result, the leader of the group of saboteurs – Russian Aleksei Komarichev – was seriously wounded. Together with him, another citizen of the Russian Federation, Timur Dzortov, was detained, as well as several people from the FSB network who helped them in Ukraine.
Regarding Intelligence Committee, it is an auxiliary body under the President of Ukraine. Its main task is to prepare proposals for the management, coordination and control of the activities of the state's intelligence agencies.
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On July 25, President Volodymyr Zelensky not only fired Ruslan Demchenkofrom the position of first deputy secretary of the National Security Council, and also removed him from the position of the head of the Intelligence Committee. As ZN.UA already wrote, it was to Demchenko that during the last two years, all the intelligence services of Ukraine – border guards, foreign intelligence and other special structures – were supposed to report and have been reporting.
ZN.UAalso wrote that the experienced diplomat Ruslan Demchenko worked in the presidential office during the time of President Viktor Yushchenko. During the time of fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych, Demchenko was the first deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. In the foreign policy department, he dealt with the Russian direction and participated in the preparation of the Kharkiv agreements. During the time of President Petro Poroshenko, Demchenko was an adviser to the head of state and worked with him on the documents of the “first Minsk”. Demchenko was also an adviser to President Zelensky. He was involved in the “Minsk process” and the release of hostages held by Russia. However, the office of the President of Ukraine concealed information about his lustration check.
Ruslan Demchenko took part in a meeting where the fate of the special operation to detain mercenaries in Belarus was decided PVK “Wagner”. As a result, the special operation was foiled. In addition, it was Demchenko who lobbied for the so-called Kharkiv agreements in 2010, which provided for the extension of the Russian fleet's stay in Crimea until 2042.
