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Kyrylo Budanov
Kyrylo Oleksiiovych Budanov (; born 4 January 1986) is a Ukrainian military leader who has served as the chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (Ukraine), Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine since August 2020. Budanov previously served as the deputy director of one of the departments of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. He holds the rank of lieutenant general. Early life and education Budanov was born in Kyiv, Kiev on 4 January 1986. He graduated from the Odesa Military Academy, Odesa Institute of the Ground Forces in 2007. Career Following his 2007 graduation, Budanov started a military career in the special forces of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (Ukraine), Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. Russo-Ukrainian War In 2014, he took part in the war in Donbas, where he was wounded several times and reportedly participated in a number of classified special military operation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Directorate Of Intelligence (Ukraine)
The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (), also known in English as the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), is the military intelligence service of the Ukrainian government. It is an agency of the Ministry of Defence, not the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. History The agency was established from the existing intelligence assets of the Kyiv, Odesa and Carpathian military districts of the Soviet Armed Forces and its Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the independence of Ukraine. The Intelligence Directorate of the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was established in February 1992. Based on a presidential decree issued on September 7, 1992, the Strategic Military Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence was created. The existence of two separate agencies with similar responsibilities, and reporting to different authorities, hampered the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Special Purpose Detachment (Ukraine)
The 10th Special Purpose Detachment "Major General Maksym Shapoval" (A2245) is a Ukrainian battalion level military unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate subordinated to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The Battalion is headquartered in Rybalsky Island, Kyiv. History It was established originally as the military unit A2245, in September 1993 commanded by the veteran and legend of the Soviet-Afghan War, Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant Colonel Yaroslav Goroshko. Before 2022, this was the only unit that could be immediately deployed beyond the borders of Ukraine to protect the interests of Ukraine outside its borders and ensure the security of its citizens outside the country.Элитные отряды специа ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rustem Umerov
Rustem Enverovych Umerov (, ; born 19 April 1982) is a Ukrainian politician, businessman, investor, philanthropist and the current Ministry of Defence (Ukraine), Defence Minister of Ukraine. Member of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. Umerov is a former deputy head of the permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a delegate of the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People, and an adviser to former Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People chair Mustafa Dzhemilev. Since December 2020, Umerov has also co-chaired the Crimea Platform diplomatic initiative. In September 2023, amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Umerov to replace Oleksii Reznikov as defense minister of Ukraine. Early life and education Umerov was born in 1982 in Bulungʻur, Samarqand Region, Samarkand, in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. His father, Enver Umerov, was an engineering technologist; his mother, Meryem Umerova, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuters
Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was established in London in 1851 by Paul Reuter. The Thomson Corporation of Canada acquired the agency in a 2008 corporate merger, resulting in the formation of the Thomson Reuters Corporation. In December 2024, Reuters was ranked as the 27th most visited news site in the world, with over 105 million monthly readers. History 19th century Paul Julius Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions of 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in 1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on, in order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen, in what today is Aa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksii Reznikov
Oleksii Yuriiovych Reznikov (, ; born 18 June 1966) is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician who served as the List of Ministers of Defense (Ukraine), Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 4 November 2021 until his dismissal on 5 September 2023. Reznikov previously has served in several other positions in the government of Ukraine: First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister, Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration from 2016 to 2018, and deputy mayor-secretary of the Kyiv City Council from June 2014Oleksiy Reznikov elected as Kyiv City Council Secretary Interfax-Ukraine (19 June 2014) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davyd Arakhamia
Davyd Heorhiyovych Arakhamia (born 23 May 1979), also known by the pseudonym David Braun, is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur. He is a member of the Servant of the People political party. Arakhamia was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2019. In parliament, he was elected as his party's faction leader on 29 August 2019.Later, the new head of the Ministry of Health will be replaced by Radutsky – Arachamia . 31 August 2019 Early life and career Davyd Heorhiyovych Arakhamia was born on 23 May 1979 in |
Servant Of The People
Servant of the People (; ''SN'') is a Liberalism, liberal, Centrism, centrist, Pro-Europeanism, pro-European List of political parties in Ukraine, political party in Ukraine. Since both the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election and the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, it has been the ruling political party in Ukraine. It is best known for being the political party of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The party is named after the popular Ukrainian TV series ''Servant of the People (2015 TV series), Servant of the People'', in which Zelenskyy played a fictional Ukrainian president. It was formed in late 2017 and was officially registered on 31 March 2018 on the basis of the previously registered Party of Decisive Changes."The Ministr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azov Brigade
The 12th Special Forces Brigade "Azov" () is a formation of the National Guard of Ukraine formerly based in Mariupol, in the coastal region of the Sea of Azov, from which it derives its name. It was founded in May 2014 as the Azov Battalion (), a Ukrainian volunteer battalions, self-funded volunteer militia under the command of Andriy Biletsky, to fight Russian people's militias in Ukraine, Russian-backed forces in the War in Donbas (2014–2022), Donbas War. It was formally incorporated into the National Guard on 11 November 2014, and redesignated Special Operations Detachment "Azov", also known as the Azov Regiment. In February 2023, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine), Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Azov was to be expanded as a brigade of the new Offensive Guard (Ukraine), Offensive Guard. As of April 2025, the brigade is part of the 1st Azov Corps (Ukraine), 1st Azov Corps, a newly created formation led by former Azov Brigade commander Denys Prok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War with Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Russia's annexation of Crimea and War in Donbas, invasion of the Donbas, and has continued to serve during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February 2022. Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian language in Ukraine, Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. He obtained a degree in law from the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics, but never practised law and pursued a career in comedy and entertainment. He co-created the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series ''Servant of the People (2015 TV series), Servant of the People'', in which Zelens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevrolet Evanda
The Daewoo Magnus is a mid-sized sedan developed and manufactured by Daewoo for model years 2000–2006 under a single generation, and marketed globally by GM Daewoo and other General Motors divisions, as well as GMDAT stake holder Suzuki. Developed under its internal Daewoo designation V200, the Magnus was marketed prominently in the United States as the Suzuki Verona. The V200 is a successor to the Daewoo Leganza (model V100), used a larger chassis of its platform. Launched in 23 November, it was sold alongside the Leganza in Korea until the end of V100's production in 2002, when it also superseded it in export markets. The V200 itself was given an extensive facelift for 2006, which resulted in the model known as V250, or Daewoo Tosca in Korea. The V250 completely superseded all versions of the V200 during 2006. The Evanda comes equipped with the Daewoo-developed ''XK6'' inline-6 engine (DOHC 24V, at 5800 rpm, of torque at 4000 rpm – Canadian specification) or a Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
