{"id":105366,"date":"2022-05-14T08:39:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T05:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=105366"},"modified":"2022-05-14T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T05:39:23","slug":"putin-has-cancer-coup-already-in-the-making-in-russia-ukraine-s-defense-intel-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2022\/05\/14\/putin-has-cancer-coup-already-in-the-making-in-russia-ukraine-s-defense-intel-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin has cancer, coup already in the making in Russia \u2013 Ukraine\u2019s defense intel chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

War will reach a turning point in August – and be over by the end of the year, says Ukrainian intelligence chief.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s head of military intelligence says the war with Russia is going so well, it will reach a turning point by mid-August and be over by the end of the year.\u00a0 It is the most precise and optimistic prediction by a senior Ukrainian official so far, Sky News<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview, Major General Kyrylo Budanov also said a coup to remove Vladimir Putin is already underway in Russia and the Russian leader is seriously ill with cancer.<\/p>\n

Budanov correctly predicted when the Russian invasion would happen when others in his government were publicly skeptical and now says he is confident about predicting its conclusion.<\/p>\n

“The breaking point will be in the second part of August.\u00a0 Most of the active combat actions will have finished by the end of this year.\u00a0\u00a0 As a result, we will renew Ukrainian power in all our territories that we have lost including Donbas and Crimea.”<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s tactics have not changed despite its shift to the east he says, and Russia is suffering huge losses though he would not be drawn on Ukrainian casualties.<\/p>\n

He said he was not surprised by Russia’s setbacks in the war.<\/p>\n

“We know everything about our enemy.\u00a0 We know about their plans almost as they\u2019re being made.<\/p>\n

“Europe sees Russia as a big threat.\u00a0 They are afraid of its aggression.\u00a0 We have been fighting Russia for eight years and we can say that this highly publicized Russian power is a myth.\u00a0 It is not as powerful as this.\u00a0 It is a horde of people with weapons.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

War will reach a turning point in August – and be over by the end of the year, says Ukrainian intelligence chief. Ukraine’s head of military intelligence says the war with Russia is going so well, it will reach a turning point by mid-August and be over by the end of the year.\u00a0 It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5150,5149],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interviews","8":"category-opinions"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/e64fa659-b5b8-408b-8deb-0fd9db5f5e88.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}