The Main Intelligence Directorate dismissed Russia's false claim about Budanov's defeat in Odessa.

Andrey Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, refuted the Russian fake news on Friday evening, January 31, about the alleged presence of the head of the GUR MO, Kyrylo Budanov, at the Bristol hotel in Odesa, which suffered damage from a Russian missile strike.   "No, of course, Kyrylo Budanov was not at the Bristol hotel in Odesa, as the Russian propaganda lies. The head of the GUR was not in other historical buildings in the city center either, which is supposed to be protected by UNESCO," Yusov wrote on his Facebook page.   Earlier, Russian propaganda sources spread information that at the moment of the strike on Odesa, the head of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, was allegedly at the Bristol hotel.   It is worth noting that on the evening of January 31, Russians launched a missile strike on the historical center of Odesa. Later, it became known that Norwegian diplomats were at the epicenter of the strike.