The CIA director was not going to enter into “negotiations of any kind” with the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) or discuss a settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, according to the CNN report
CIA director William Burns and his Russian counterpart Sergei Naryskin met in Ankara on Monday to discuss the consequences of the possible use of nuclear weapons by Moscow and the issue of Americans detained in Russia, as reported by the American network CNN citing representative of the US National Security Council.
Burns “conveys a message about the consequences of Russia’s use of nuclear weapons (…) and the cases of wrongfully detained American citizens,” a spokesman for the US Security Council told CNN earlier.
The CIA director was not going to enter into “negotiations of any kind” with the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) or discuss a settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, according to the CNN report. The representative of the US Security Council emphasized that the Ukrainian government had been informed about the meeting in advance, underlining that Washington adheres to the principle “nothing for Ukraine without Ukraine”.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the meeting in Ankara, without mentioning the content of the talks. He claimed that the meeting took place at the initiative of Washington.
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