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“He was killed in an SBU car.” Budanov told the details about the death of the negotiator and intelligence officer Kireev

The head of Ukrainian intelligence is sure that Kireev was not a Russian spy. According to him, Kireev passed all the necessary checks, including a lie detector test.

“I share the opinion and believe the facts that Mr. Kireev was killed in the SBU car when they [сотрудники СБУ] held an action against this person. This fact is recorded, it is in the materials of the investigation. Everything else is being investigated by the State Bureau of Investigation. I have no right to comment on this information. The fact that he was killed in this car by employees is a fact,” says Budanov.

According to the head of the GUR, on the night of the murder, Kireev voluntarily went to the SBU directly from his office.

“They called him, he left my office there… About 200 meters from the central building of the SBU (he went there), a bus drove out, that is, it just escaped into the oncoming lane, Alfa employees ran out, shouting ‘This is the SBU!’ operatives, they said that they were from the SBU. They made the arrest in this form,” Budanov said.

According to him, Kireev told everyone to stop. Then he was transferred to a minibus, which did not go to the central building of the SBU, but a few blocks away.

“Then what happened happened… And his body fell out of this minibus. Here are the facts. Why didn’t they leave for the SBU building? Let the investigation answer this question,” the head of the GUR added.

Budanov stressed that no one expected such actions from the SBU in the GUR. He noted that the Main Intelligence Directorate is not engaged in the protection of its own forces and means from the police, NABU or SBU.

“This is nonsense! Do you understand? And when a car drove up from which Alfa fighters and DKR employees jumped out (Department of counterintelligence of the SBU.“GORDON”) and told to get into this car, Mr. Kireev himself told his guards, the officers accompanying him – and he was accompanied by two more employees of the Department of Internal Security of ours – that it’s calm, these are SBU employees, they want to ask me something, “said the head GUR.

After the death of Kireev, Budanov, according to him, had a conversation with the then head of the SBU, Ivan Bakanov.

“That was my last conversation with him. He couldn’t really explain anything,” says the head of intelligence.

Context:

Kireev attended the negotiations of the delegations of Ukraine and Russia in the Gomel region on February 28, 2022. The president’s office did not release his name. in the list of delegation membershowever, published by the Russian agency TASS and Belarusian BELTA a photo of him can be seen from the side of the Ukrainian delegation.

March 5 “Ukrainian Truth”, referring to sources, wrote that Kireev was shot dead during the detention by the SBU officers. According to the interlocutors of the publication, the secret service “had clear evidence of Kireev’s treason, including telephone conversations.”

On the evening of March 5, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense stated on Facebook that Kireev was a scout and died during the execution of a special mission. “Heroes do not die! They live as long as we remember them,” the press service of the GUR noted in this post.

On January 17, 2023, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, explained the death of Kireev poor coordination between law enforcement agencies. He also stated that Kireev was not a Russian agent.

On January 18, The Wall Street Journal published an article about Kireev. In particular, it contains Budanov’s commentary on Kireev’s role in repelling Russian aggression. He, according to Budanov, helped thwart Russia’s plans to capture Kyiv.

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