“Telegram is definitely a problem from a national security point of view. This must be understood. In addition, I am absolutely against the suppression of freedom of speech. But this is too much,” Budanov said, as quoted by RIA Novosti.
Budanov is not satisfied with the fact that any person can “make a channel, start writing whatever he wants,” and “when they start doing something,” this person begins to “hide behind the fact that this is freedom of the media.”
The messenger in many ways “causes a destructive effect here inside,” the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate believes.
In February, Kirill Budanov admitted that the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine leaves much to be desired.