https://files.catbox.moe/rw8znx.mp4
And here's a webm. for anyone who's allergic to catbox links, in the best 240p pixels free conversion can buy.
>>64705302>>64705304What name d'ya think Budanov used on his half a mil paycheck?
Russia fall for that?
>>64705314>signature unclear
>>647053143 sims, obviously
>>64705319Ziggers are so desperate that they are willing to pay half a million for any illusory “victory”
what happened?whats this "half a mil" business about?what did I miss anons?give it to me straight
>>64705344Russia had a bounty on someone, Ukraine faked his death and cashed in the russian 500k bounty.
>>64705344https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/02/ukraine-war-briefing-kyivs-gur-faked-russian-ordered-killing-and-bagged-500k-kremlin-reward
>>64705344Last week the RDK commander was announced to have been killed in a drone strike. Russians celebrated and everyone else lamented. RDK vowed revenge.Now it's revealed he's alive, Ukraine carried out a fake attack and collected the 500,000 dollar bounty for killing him. The money is going directly into procuring more arms and munitions to attack Russia of course.
>>64705302wtf is an rdk?
>>64705344>russian hired Ukrainian to kill a Ukrainian commander >Ukrainian release OP video as proof it was done >russian paid them 500 000 USD>turns out it was all fake and russia just paid Ukrainian secret service for nothing
>>64705344>ziggers post about how they killed the leader of a pro ukie zigger group in a hit>ziggers gloat about this for a few weeks>turns out ziggers got BUDANOV'D>they paid the ukies half a million bucks for faking the guys death>just as planned
>>64705347>>64705348>>64705352>>64705354>>64705355thanks anonswhere do I collect the bounty for the assassination of my sides?
>>64705352this is how you know slavs are morons, they cant even commit fraud properly. If theyd killed him for real, they could have collected the bounty and life insurance on top of that. No wonder theyre going broke.
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>>64705359>this is how you know slavs are morons, they cant even commit fraud properly. If theyd killed him for real, they could have >t. least fraudulent jeetNot everyone is a jeet who thinks 25 scam steps ahead, but still doesn't mamage to move out of the way of an incoming train in time.
>>64705358>thanks anons>where do I collect the bounty for the assassination of my sides?Straight up when I heard about it I was like "fuck". I shook my head, pretend I didn't hear that, and focused on "good news". This in turn is a crazy insane turn of events. All of the Ukrainian "old blood" in the intelligence services have retired, or ran off to Russia after 2014, so there is a lot of new blood in the system including Budanov. They seem to be a lot more creative and energetic, as well as completely committed to the Ukrainian state. Strangely, the 2014 invasion of the east and Crimea allowed for a "release valve" of those who doubted Ukraine and sided with Russia to jump ship, leaving only dedicated men behind. If Russia had just gone all in during 2014 they would have taken Kiev and achieved their aims. Crazy how things work out eh?
>>64705353Russian Volunteer Corps, military unit of russians fighting alongside Ukrainian military (under GUR's command).Unlike other similar units like the Freedom of Russia Legion and whatever, RDK can trace it's origins to before the war, when monke did one of the smarter things he could and cracked down on ultranationalists (which led to people like Kapustin fleeing to Ukraine), and is probably the closest thing to an actual Russian Liberation Army we're going to get.
>>64705304>no footage of explosion>cut to aftermathNo wonder they fucking believed it
>>64705396And I thought that ziggers were being disingenuous when claiming a kill with footage like that.
>>64705396Don't forget the aftermath being very clearly filmed in a completely different part of day.
>>64705302>xaxaxa no refunds pidor
>>64705331Regardless of what side one is on, everyone has to admit this lil autist has been doing great work.
>>64705302>Budanogged:They have paid the bounty>now pump eetThey have posted the news>load de FUDThey are cheering and reposting>now crash itThey are saying it is fake news and there is no footage>now release de footage
>>64705383Gives me more hope in my petty vengeful little heart that they go full Mossad 2.0 after the war and hunt down every last zigger for decades to come. Let those fuckers piss themselves in fear every night they go to sleep. Abduct them from their houses in the middle of the night and cut them to pieces in the woods somewhere, slowly.
>>64705304And they wondered why we always laughed at their jump cuts.
>>64705456I would gladly pay any money to see that happen.
drones are fucking terrifying man
Damn NATO Bio-Lab Supersoldiers tricking me!
>>64705485Ooh, is this card rare or just uncommon?
>>64705378>retard ruins joke by reacting seriously and in the most retarded fashionKill yourself.
>>64705532Secret Lair print.
>"We totally killed him Russia, believe us! We have the proofs! Now give us the money without asking any more questions! Would this face lie?"
>>64705304Is that warhead a fucking jpg lmao
>>64705533NTA but if that was meant as a joke don't try to be funny anymore.
>>64705547Normally a unit saying their own commander just got blown up is typically enough evidence he got blown up. It's highly embarrassing information and normally they'd try to conceal it. It's actually too insane to think that his own unit is in on a conspiracy with GUR to fake his death to steal their money.
>>64705556I didn't make the joke. You're just illiterate.
>>64705552Nah it's legit just not active. So it goes and *bonks* him. They then blow up the van so the other UAV can record it and show that he's gone.
>>64705344oops hehe
>>64705559https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXwJkaJPBYA
>>64705355The extra amusing part is just how hilariously easy this would have been to set up since the guy who was assassinated was Russian... And leading Russians. It would be beyond trivial for Russians directly recruited from Russian PoWs to impersonate Russian hitmen lmao
>>64705582Russception.
Wtf is Budanov. How did this competent person emerge out of a military that was more or less non-existent before 2014? He isn't old enough to have been a soviet-era higher up either.
>>64705730He hated ziggers all his life, and was almost blown up by one of their mines when he was still doing commando missions. It got personal after they poisoned his wife trying to get him, and ziggers have been made to regret that ever since
>>64705730Someone poisoning your wife has some slight effect on your motivation and devotion, and when those get high enough creativity becomes deadly.
>>64705730>He isn't old enough to have been a soviet-era higher up either.Exactly, that's a huge boon
>>64705730>He isn't old enough to have been a soviet-era higher up either.That's a benefit, not a liability. Most of the old Soviet guys retired or they fucked off to Russia after 2014. The new GUR is new blood and strong nationalists. As I've thought, the 2014 crisis was ultimately a boon to Ukraine's government and military since anyone who wasn't on board with Ukraine just defected to Russia leaving only the supporters of the country behind. This meant that almost no one turned out to be a turncoat during the 2022 invasion.
>>64705348hahaha wow what even is this cancer
>>64705730He was part of a unit trained by CIA glowies IIRC. They were whacking GRU and FSB niggers in Donbas way before the invasion.
>>64705383>All of the Ukrainian "old blood" in the intelligence services have retired, or ran off to Russia after 2014Then how comes the ziggers rolled over the defence lines from Crimea to Kherson in February 2022? I get your point, but take off the rose tinted glasses. The threat still exist.
>>64705302>$500k It would be funny if next time Budanov makes a statement, he's iced out. Maybe thanking Monke for the grillz.
>>64705302>https://files.catbox.moe/rw8znx.mp4>>64705304>And here's a webm. for anyone who's allergic to catbox links, in the best 240p pixels free conversion can buy.A 1080p (source) WebM.
>>64705730Highly intelligent and motivated individual, in a meritocratic, result-driven systemBut still, his rise is pretty incredible, he's the head of Ukrainian military intelligence and he's not even 40 yet (or, well, will be in like two days).Reading his Wikipedia page, he graduated from the military academy, commissioned as an officer, immediately passed selection into what's essentially Ukraine's equivalent of CIA ground branch, and apparently kept getting promoted at a crazy rate because he kept delivering results (Lt.Col in 7-8 years, Lt.Gen in ~16 years)I really fucking hope he releases an autobiography at some point, maybe after the war ends, because that will be one crazy read
>>64705814>Then how comes the ziggers rolled over the defence lines from Crimea to Kherson in February 2022?1. Kherson is the exception to the rule - as the city's leadership opened and welcomed the Russians. None of the bridges were blown out and the river is a perfect defense point. 2. Blame Zelenskyy who had his head in the sand. The Americans were telling him the Russians were gonna invade, but he didn't believe it and didn't prepare defenses as much as he should have.
>>64705829The blown out windshield laying in the dirt was a nice touch.
>>64705730He's a long-time member of the service and relatively young (less poisoned by soviet shit)
>>64705352Also they used the whole charade to track down the zigger contacts and financial channels involved.
>>64705782>This meant that almost no one turned out to be a turncoat during the 2022 invasion.Yeah no, the whole reason Russian managed to attack into Kherson in 2022 was because of turncoats in the Ukrainian army who didn't place the mines at the border and did not blow up the Kherson Bridge.
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>>64705988Taking into account that fsb thought they had bought off the whole Ukrainian command structure, only having turncoats being effective in Kherson was a pretty good outcome.
>>64705834>The Americans were telling him the Russians were gonna invade, but he didn't believe it and didn't prepare defenses as much as he should have.Pretty much nobody expected the Russians to actually do it and Ukrainians were ofcourse afraid of doing any sort of major mobilization because Putin would have used that as a pretext to attack. Ofcourse we know in hindsight what happened, the issue is that someone are somehow STILL believing Russia and their constant lies.
>>64705998To a degree. Why Zelensky didn't have 50 good men stationed in Kherson ready to blow the bridges is beyond me. Doing so would have sparred them all the fighting around Kherson city in 2022 and rather just hide behind the Dnieper, allowing them to have done more for the Kharkov offensive.
>>64706007If NSA/CIA/GCHQ/MI6 are PUBLICALLY DECLASSIFYING AND DISCLOSING information and saying they are actually going to do it, you should listen upI said russia would be beyond fucking retarded to do it, but when the MoD was openly saying it it was on it it triggered alarm bells for me
>>64705331agent ivan 3 sim cards depostied to you dacha in muhosransk oblast>>64705436nigdanoff secured the bag>>64705547id fuck her so bad
Budanov's been promoted. Just now. Seriously.
>>64706028Yeah he's head of staff but I don't know how I feel about that
>>64706023I don't disagree with you but this was right after US withdrawal from Afghanistan and many weren't really buying the intelligence (which has been wrong in the past) either because it was convenient to them or because they just couldn't see it happening.
>>64706035I know where you're coming from, I remember the UK MoD made a post about the needed pivot towards Russia at maybe the start of the decade (around then anyway) and figured that was unnecessary. Their late 21/early 22 actions were pretty unprecedented though because they weren't making any sort of casus belli, they were coming out with claims that would ruin their reputation if they were unfounded, and predicted a war most thought untenable regardless if they were right, so basically 0 gain when they could (and were) telling Ukraine privately anywayBlowing it into the public sphere was an act of desperation I do believe because ukraine was hesitant to act, they were staking their entire reputation on it
>>64705444Grats on posting the first illiterate 4chan post of the year
>>64705436Bananov.jpg
>>64706051You gotta remember that this was right after Covid. The public were already pretty sceptical on anything coming from any government institution, but everyone should have realized something was happening when the Russian propagandists started shouting and they started stocking blood during a "training exercise".Many also legitimately didn't expect Ukraine to survive, both because they overestimated the Russians and underestimated the Ukrainians, probably because we never really have seen Russia launch such a large scale operation since WW2 and we still believed their propaganda (which the Russians also did lmao).
>>64705834Fortunately military commanders took the warnings seriously. They moved equipment and vehicles out of bases without asking for permission from political leaders.Our enemies will vanish book is a highly recommended book about those phases of the war.
>>64705353Russian Chud Corps.They fight for Ukraine along other Russian groups like the freedom of Russia legion, the Siberian battalion and the turan battalion
>>64705730>He isn't old enough to have been a soviet-era higher up either.
>>64706114It definitely revived some faith in the anglosphere that hadn't been seen since the early 2000sI got on board with the FVEY calls of invasion but I admit I expected ukraine to fold, I didn't know how hard we'd shoved the fulda gap infantry warfare manual down their throats>that videoStill cracks me up they went from that to>no grandad, don't sell your lada>I have volunteered to go get gibbed into chunks>now you can afford to buy a sausage and stale bread without selling your prized soviet shitbox!
>>64706022>50 good men
>>64705834>>64706007That isn't true, the Ukrainians did believe US intelligence but the publicly denied it because they didn't want citizens to panic. They were moving units and logistics around so it was important that the roads weren't packed and unusable. There's also little they could've done better imo, it's not like they could've set up a frontline near the border. Better to let the Russians stretch out their logistics and hit them with ambushes and pre sighted artillery.
>>64706188I don't think they bought into it until the final months, which is when FVEY started going hugely public with their claimsThey were largely on board with the FR/GER position that the buildup wasn't really indicative of impending invasion given all the prior buildups, I'm not saying FR/GER/Ukraine didn't think an invasion was going to happen, but iirc none of them really predicted the start of 22, and as stated Zelenskys original position was attempting peace. A lot of the motions happened in Feb itself and a lot of it was movement to avoid the russian first strikeAlthough to be fair it's not like you want to start those movements till as late as logistically possible anyway as to avoid a Russian reevaluation of Ukranian positions so I'll concede that
>>64705302>>64705304>Russians fell for their own video editing styleHow embarrassing.
>Five Eyes>Includes New Zealand
>>64706212It's just easier than saying CIA/NSA/DIA/MI6/GCHQ desu
>>64706188>There's also little they could've done better imoI can think of a few alteast: 1. Blow up the Kherson Bridge or have better plans for blowing it up2. Rotate Soviet-era officers who most likely arn't loyal3. Background checks and vetting of said officers4. More mines5. Better control and structure for influx of foreign volunteers/aid6. Better narrative control of the conflict (Russia still dominates this and Ukraine still are struggling with this)But those things are minor. The ones to blame is the US and the West. We should have been flooding Ukraine with Javelins and Stingers 1-2 months before the war and then we should have been flooding it with HIMARS, Abrahms, F-16's Bradley's, CV-90's and Leo 2's the day Russia retreated from Northern Ukraine. The war would have been over in 2022 if it wasn't for our overly cautious approach.
>>64705833>I really fucking hope he releases an autobiography at some point, maybe after the war ends, because that will be one crazy readEven if he writes one it will probably be revised to keep the more spicy stuff out. These kinds of books are never allowed to release without some revisions due to security/secrecy concerns
>>64706213Does NZ even have a foreign intel agency?
>>64706217I mean tbf anon they were flooded with AT and a decent amount of MANPADs, the early invasion as I said was basically fulda gap infantry warfare to a TThere was a hell of a lot of ambushes on armored columns and helo shootdowns I the first few months>>64706219I mean who even knows at this point, maybe they had a token effort at it during the cold war
>>64706212It's Australia Jr. Might as well let them tag along.
>>64705304>>64705829Never mind the russian-style jumpcut, the target isn't identifiable even in the source resolution.I wonder what kind of metadata their "proof" included to sell the illusion.
>>64705347Lmaooooo
Fucking hell, this shit is rad.
>>64705367Vope and sneed vatnik
>>64705314Full name: Tishka Zoran DmitrievSignature: TZD
>>64706022Russians were also busy manning Kherson including with the remnants of VDV instead of hiding behind the river themselves
>>64705834>>64706188I've read like year ago that he couldn't do full mobilization because if Russia stalled and attacked like month later then ukraine could face major economic crisis or even bankruptcy. It was hard decision to make because they were screwed either way and if russia didn't attack then ukrainian economy and government would be in deep shit.
>>64705547
It's the revenge of the Ghost Of Pringles!
>>64705387>command).>Unlike other similar units like the Freedom of Russia Legion and whatever, RDK can trace it's origins to before the war, when monke did one of the smarter things he could and cracked down on ultranationalists (which led to people like Kapustin fleeing to Ukraine), and is probably the closest thing to an actual Russian Liberation Army we're going to get.>smarterIt sounds to me it wasn't very smart, it created a highly motivated insurgent force out of men who would have otherwise been fanatical supporters of Russia. That seems the opposite of smart..
>>64706647Please understand, monki is a 7-D chess master
>>64706249>CIA poserIQ<100On January 2, Kyrylo Budanov became the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine .
>>64706666A reward for his MANY successes. I just hope he continues to manage the spymastering on the side.
>>64705319>Their own editing style of jump cutsI mean they do get their "bounties" based on this. Remember when they kept claiming the same piece of Western hardware from different angles?>>64705304Anon you can make webms better than this. 4chan limit is 4mb, do a two pass encode with x265 or vp9 with 4mb as the target after stripping the audio.
>>64706666https://kyivindependent.com/breaking-ukraines-military-intelligence-head-kyrylo-budanov-appointed-as-zelenskys-new-chief-of-staff/
>>64706647>it created a highly motivated insurgent force out of men who would have otherwise been fanatical supporters of RussiaIt also took out most of the punch any anti-putin protests could have had. Most russian ultras of Kapustin's type aren't pro-monke (for completely different reasons someone like Maxim Katz is, you'll notice most pro-russian ultras tend to be absolute degenerates instead of just regular chuds, see Milchakov) but they wouldn't have issue giving a hand to any mass liberal protest if it turned violent. Kind of like how football hooligans basically neutered zigger provocations in Kharkiv and Odesa. By the way, looking up Milchakov, the image result is the pic where he got cucked by Alaudinov lmao. For me at least.
>>64706229>sorry guys, i had to bring my little brother with me
>>64706687>Low Battery>"Damn it Boris and Natasha! You forgot it to plug it in!"
>>64705730> He isn't old enough to have been a soviet-era higher up either.which is only a pro. Soviet background officers have been a huge liability with their meat wave mindsets and overwhelming incompetence even in AFU. Repeated calls to get them purged and sidelined by the modern day guys like Azov. Only ones thinking vatnik union anything is a benefit are either deep westerners like americans or ziggers
>>64706666I just love that fucking TZD squint he does
>>64706212Did you expect them to call it “Four Eyes” like a bunch of fucking nerds?
>>64706227>There was a hell of a lot of ambushes on armored columns and helo shootdowns I the first few monthsGiven what they had and where they were, the Ukrainians fought admirably and punched way over their weight. I think most of us were very surprised that 3-5 days had gone and Ukraine was still standing only then to start seeing the footage. I remember looking at webcam footage on the first days, seeing soldiers in Odessa and wondering if they were Russian or not, which in retrospective sounds very silly but we had been fed propaganda for years that Russia was an equal to the whole of NATO.It does annoy me a bit of "what could have been" when you have hindsight. If they just had prepared a bit more and had more weapons. Take webm rel. If they just had twice or triple the MANPADS on invasion day, Hostomel would have turned out EVEN WORSE which is something I can't believe I'm saying. The Russians wouldn't even have set foot on the airport.
