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Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, in an interview with NV, spoke about the tasks for the Security and Defence Forces, the maximum programme for our country in the war against russia and the need to create a new effective international security system.

The key points from the conversation:

Classical positional ‘frontline’ warfare is gradually becoming a thing of the past. The 21st century creates new challenges both on the battlefield and in the rear area. Whoever is the first to accept these challenges and find a worthy response to them will win.

We must actively destroy the enemy's technical, production and financial potential in its rear. Oil depots, factories, weapons production cycles, and the destruction of strategic facilities in russia’s rear are our legitimate targets. And we are already successfully fulfilling it.

The main and undeniable condition for starting negotiations with russia should be the liberation of absolutely all Ukrainian territory seized after March 2014.

For this to happen, Ukraine needs to gain a significant advantage on the battlefield; russians always make concessions when they feel their own existence is in danger. And we have to create such feeling in them.

The maximum programme for us is not only reach our constitutional borders, but also the complete collapse of the occupying country. [...] We have to contribute to this process as much as possible with our thoughts, our weapons, our diplomacy, our intelligence. In other circumstances, the morning of  February 24, 2022 will be repeated with regularity for Ukraine.

russia must be brought to justice for its crimes. Every war criminal must be brought before a tribunal. All material and moral damages caused to Ukraine, including lost profits due to the war, must be compensated through the mechanism of reparations.

Most importantly, the russian federation should completely abandon nuclear weapons, and the "peaceful atom" in russia should be placed under international control.

I have no doubt that the war will end in our victory, and therefore in russia's defeat. Because this is an existential question, and its solution is obvious: good must punish evil, justice must prevail over lawlessness, beauty must triumph over ugliness.

In order to prevent the recurrence of such a scenario in the future, when a maniacal dictator can seriously threaten to destroy countries and peoples, it is necessary to build a new, modern, effective and reactive system of international security.