WIRE โ€” There is ongoing routine dialogue between the current and former heads of the Defense Ministry's Main Directorate of Intelligence - Oleh Ivashchenko and Kyrylo Budanov - and reports of a "struggle for influence" between them are media speculation, sources in military intelligence told Interfax-Ukraine.

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