“What does your usual day look like? Do you have a weekend? Can you take a walk calmly down the street? Hard to breathe air?” – asked the head of the GUR presenter.
“Well, I’m a leader, my usual day is slightly different, let’s say, from the image that you are asking about. I have administrative work,” Budanov answered. “Several times a year I definitely go out with my wife somewhere, because we are still people.”
Budanov noted that he could not go abroad yet, but recently he was with his wife at the MCC “October Palace” on the ballet “Blue Danube” in the production of Ukrainian choreographer Rad Pokltar.
“And I advise you – go,” Budanov addressed Eskhakzai.
Context
Budanov heads the GUR for five years – With August 2020.
Marianna – The second wife Budanova. They got married in August 2013. Budanov's first marriage was registered in 2009.
Budanov very rarely talks about his wife, who since June 2021 is an adviser to the mayor of Kyiv Vitaly Klitschko.
In October 2022, Budanova gave an interview to the Ukrainian magazine Elle, in which she told about herself. She said that by education a psychologist, from 2015 to 2017, was engaged in volunteer activities in the main military hospital in the hospital in Kyiv.
Talking about romance in relations with her husband, Budanova admitted that they write notes to each other.
In November 2023, the Ukrainian edition of Babel reported that Marianne Budanov was hospitalized with poisoning. Valery Kondratyuk, who headed the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in 2015-2016, said that such heavy metals as mercury and arsenic were discovered in the Budanova body. In an interview with the chief editor of the Internet publication “Gordon” Ales Batzman, he specified that Budanova treatment is completed, and the main version is Personal revenge of the non -ligimal president of the country of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
In the spring of 2024, Budanov said that The state of the spouse after poisoning stabilized.
In February 2025, Marianna Budanova for the first time after poisoning with heavy metals appeared in public.
