CIA Director William Burns will meet with his Russian Intelligence Agency (SVR) counterpart Serguei Naryshkin in Ankara on Monday to discuss the implications of the possible installation of a Russian nuclear weapon in Ukraine, he told a CIA official. White House.
According to a National Security Council official quoted by the Associated Press (AP) news agency, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Burns and Serguei Naryshkin, head of the Russian spy agency SVR, will not comment on the resolution of the conflict in Ukraine.
Burns should also address the cases of Brittney Griner, the Phoenix Mercury basketball player, and Paul Whelan, an executive responsible for the Michigan company, both detained in Russia and that President Joe Biden’s administration has insisted. insisted that they be included in a prisoner exchange.
The same source said responsible Ukrainian officials were briefed before Burn moved to Turkey.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday he could neither confirm nor deny reports of talks between Russia and the US in Turkey.
Two Turkish officials said they were unaware of a meeting between the US and Russian delegations.
In October, US President Joe Biden declared that the risk of a nuclear “Armageddon” was at its highest level since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 after Russian officials admitted to using tactical nuclear weapons following several military setbacks in the war in Ukraine. raged nine months after the February 24 invasion.
Despite warnings from US officials about the prospect of Russia using weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine, members of the White House administration ensured that there was no warning in the perception of US intelligence agencies about the lack of impending plans by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the deployment of nuclear weapons towards the stage of the conflict.
Source: DN
