Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate Kyrylo Budanov commented on the threat of an offensive by occupiers in northern Ukraine, considering the Kremlin’s desire to mobilize an additional 300,000 Russians. “If I start answering this question (about the Russian attack from the north, – ed.), we might provoke panic. Let’s put it this way: there are problems, and they are tending to escalate,” he said, adding that “there is no catastrophe, but it’s impossible not to see the problems.” This response came after a journalist asked whether the Kremlin’s plans to mobilize 300,000 Russians would affe…
