The head of the Military Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, said on Monday that the standard of living in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories resembles that of Cuba due to “degradation”, “isolation” and “curtailment of political and economic freedoms” on the territory of Ukraine. the island from the “coming of the communists from power”, broadcast EFE and Agerpres.

“The temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories have turned into a kind of Cuba,” Budanov said in a statement provided by the GUR, in which he refers to the situation in the Moscow-controlled territories in Ukraine, which he compares to the situation in the separatist region. pro-Russian Transnistria in the east of the Republic of Moldova.

Since the beginning of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Cuba has voted in the UN against condemning Moscow’s military aggression. Cuba maintains close economic, military and political relations with Russia, and according to the latest information, Havana would send soldiers to fight alongside the Russian army.

In Transnistria, Russia has a contingent of about 2,000 military personnel, of which 1,600 represent the operational group of Russian troops, the Russian Special Operations Forces, and the rest are so-called “peacekeeping forces.”

The GUR communique condemns the fact that the occupation government established by Russia in the east and south of Ukraine “destroys social capital” and “infrastructure”, condemns the degradation of “education, culture and science” and denies “any development opportunities” for local communities. .

This is the price of the so-called “liberation”, the release says, alluding to the speech of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, in which he justified the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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