John Ratcliffe visited Moscow on 25 August
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on La Nouvelle Tribune
John Ratcliffe, CIA director, visited Moscow on 25 August but was not received by Russian President Vladimir Putin. German media, including the FAZ, report that his message about the Russian economy may have irritated the Kremlin, according to La Nouvelle Tribune.
John Ratcliffe, director of the CIA, the US foreign intelligence agency, spent a few hours in Moscow on 25 August, where he met Russian intelligence officials but was not received by Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov.
The visit has been described as the first known visit to Russia by a CIA director since William Burns’s in November 2021. The German press, notably the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, suggested that John Ratcliffe’s message about the Russian economy may have irritated the Kremlin. The Kremlin confirmed that there had been no meeting with Vladimir Putin, without confirming the content of the exchanges between the US official and the Russian authorities.
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