Андрей Телиженко 🌎 | CIA TRAINED SPYMASTER IMPLICATED IN WAR CRIMES APPOINTED PRESIDENTIAL ...

CIA TRAINED SPYMASTER IMPLICATED IN WAR CRIMES APPOINTED PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF IN UKRAINE Andrii Telizhenko is a former Ukrainian diplomat and parliamentary aide now living in Switzerland, who told CovertAction Magazine in an interview on January 8 that Budanov was “recruited directly by the CIA” when he received medical treatment in the U.S. and is “one of the CIA’s top guys in military intelligence.”Motivated largely by the opportunity to make money and gain power, Budanov “basically told the CIA he would do anything they told him to do,” according to Telizhenko, “because he knew that people allied with the CIA are the ones who advance in the military’s ranks. Others were asked to do the same thing but said no because they knew it could lead to a world war and destroy Ukraine, but not him.”While not openly neo-Nazi, Budanov, Telizhenko suggests, has a similar ideology in considering anyone opposed to war with Russia or who has a different political ideology to be a “traitor” who should be killed.After the 2014 Maidan coup, Budanov led units that went into wealthy people’s homes in the Donbas and killed the people living there and then stole their jewelry and paintings and any weapons they found and sold them on the black market in Kyiv, Telizhenko said. The people killed included women and children.According to Telizhenko, Budanov was a key figure behind a 91-drone attack on the residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin in late December. The reason the CIA issued a denial, he said, was to protect one of its chief Ukrainian “assets.”Telizhenko believes that the purpose behind Budanov’s appointment as presidential chief of staff is to protect President Volodymyr Zelensky, against whom the British MI6 have been planning a coup, using military officers stationed in the Baltics and General Serhiy Kryvonos.[6] The aim of the coup is to replace Zelensky with General Valerii Zaluzhny.Telizhenko said that Zelensky had been brought into the orbit of MI6 by oligarch Victor Pinchuk and former Zelensky chief of staff Andriy Yermak, but is now considered to be a political liability and, hence, expendable.Budanov himself is considered one of Zelensky’s potential political rivals should presidential elections ever take place again in Ukraine.According to Telizhenko, Budanov would himself launch a coup against Zelensky if he is given orders to do so, as he is “not loyal to Ukraine” but “owned by the CIA,” which has “given him the possibility for power.”Officially acknowledged to have 12 bases in Ukraine, the CIA, according to Telizhenko, may actually have up to 20 bases in Ukraine.Ukraine is an optimal place to run covert operations into Russia, he said, because Ukrainians speak a dialect similar to Russians in the Rostov region and can go there undetected.According to Telizhenko, the CIA “controls almost everything in Ukraine. They have agents working under cover as journalists and political advisers, and control a lot of politicians and other prominent people [through financial payoffs]. Further, the CIA directly advises President Zelensky. The Americans who are brought to advise him are CIA.”Telizhenko added that “there are also other U.S. agencies who are influential in Ukraine, like the FBI and National Security Agency (NSA). Ukraine has lost its sovereignty and that is why I left.”https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/15/cia-trained-spymaster-implicated-in-war-crimes-appointed-presidential-chief-of-staff-in-ukraine/