The CIA director met on Tuesday with the Ukrainian president and the main officials of the country’s intelligence services, in kyiv, to inform them about the meeting he had with the Russian authorities, the US agency reported today.
William Burns, former US ambassador to Moscow, traveled to kyiv the day after his meeting in Ankara with Russian intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin, the most important meeting between US and Russian officials since the start of the war in Ukraine on 24 November. february.
The CIA director conveyed to his Russian counterpart a message warning “about the consequences of Russia’s use of nuclear weapons and the risks of escalating strategic stability,” a spokesman for the House National Security Council said Monday. White. .
The spokesman specified that Burns “is not conducting negotiations of any kind” or “discussing a settlement for the war in Ukraine” and that the Ukrainians were informed in advance of the meeting.
Burns then traveled to Ukraine to brief Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian intelligence officials about his conversation with Naryshkin, as well as to reiterate US support for Ukraine’s war effort, a US official told anonymity. the AFP. agency.
The CIA chief was in kyiv when the heavy Russian bombardment of Ukraine, including the capital, took place.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people -more than six million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million to European countries-, according to the most recent data. of the UN, which catalogs this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by the wider international community, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing Russia from the political point of view and economic sanctions.
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war 6,557 dead civilians and 10,074 wounded, stressing that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
