{"id":1207,"date":"2025-08-06T06:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:50:22","slug":"ukraines-top-spy-admits-to-employing-prostitutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/ukraines-top-spy-admits-to-employing-prostitutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s top spy admits to employing prostitutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Men often seek to show off to escorts and let information slip, Kirill Budanov has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kiev employs prostitutes to gather information, Kirill Budanov, the head of Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence agency (HUR), has said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Ukrainian journalist Ramina Eshakzai published on Tuesday, he was asked if Kiev uses prostitutes to gather information \u2013 a practice which the reporter said is common in British intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dA normal method, isn\u2019t it? Do you know how often men share stories to show how powerful they are, as they say?\u201d Budanov said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian intelligence has been able to receive <em>\u201cseveral unique pieces of information\u201d<\/em> from men in relaxed circumstances, he added. <em>\u201cIt\u2019s just about things that we couldn\u2019t have found out about at all, in principle.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Budanov, <em>\u201ca very high percentage\u201d<\/em> of personnel serving in the HUR are now women.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\u00a9 FSB of Russia\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6891fc092030277bf274319e.png\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/622513-ukrainian-plot-assassinate-russian-industry-leader\/\">Ukrainian plot to assassinate Russian defense industry leader derailed \u2013 FSB<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ukrainian spies commonly use <em>\u201centrepreneurial activity, journalism, and sociology\u201d<\/em> as cover jobs while on assignment, while some work under <em>\u201cfull cover,\u201d<\/em> living double lives in Russia, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has increasingly turned to assassination and sabotage in Russia as its forces have been beaten back on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/622477-chief-suspect-plead-guilty\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>Chief suspects in Moscow concert hall massacre plead guilty<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB) has warned that Ukrainian intelligence has increased recruitment efforts within Russia to carry out assassination and sabotage plots. The FSB regularly reports that it has thwarted these types of activities.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has said Ukraine is morphing into a <em>\u201cterrorist\u201d<\/em> organization, accusing Kiev of carrying out killings of Russian officers, journalists, and other key figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men often seek to show off to escorts and let information slip, Kirill Budanov has said Kiev employs prostitutes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}