The other thing is that neither the Wash Post or CNN have touched this story.
If there were major things that were wrong in this story, or the CIA wanted to dispute, they would use the Post to do it.
The story also goes thru how a location previously bombed by Russia, they built a bunker underneath, had the workmen park far away etc.
It’s like a message to Putin, wind up a Kinzal and bomb our underground bunker !
Who of any of this gang has the incentive to do that? Budanov might be in that bunker when it is blown up.