KYIV, Ukraine — Marianna Budanova, the wife to Ukraine’s top military spy official has been hospitalized after being diagnosed with clear heavy metals poisoning, Kyiv officials confirmed on Tuesday, an incident that has amounted to widespread notion that Russia was stepping up efforts targeting Ukraine’s topmost leadership.
Marianna is the wife of Kyrylo Budanov, who heads the military intelligence unit GUR, which has been greatly involved in Ukraine’s attempts to remove Russia from its jurisdiction, and western personnel have since been suspicious that Russian agents could have tipped off a staff member to conduct the heinous act of poisoning.
