US CIA Director John Ratcliffe travelled to Moscow on Tuesday for meetings with Russian officials, US media outlets reported, citing unnamed sources.The visit would be the first known visit to the Russian capital by a US spy chief since Ratcliffe’s predecessor, William Burns, held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in November 2021.About three months after that meeting, the Russian president launched Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. CBS News and Axios reported the visit by Ratcliffe, US President Donald Trump’s CIA chief, who served as director of national intelligence in Trump’s first term.The outlets did not say who he was meeting with or what the talks were expected to cover. The CIA declined to comment.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov neither confirmed nor denied the report, telling Reuters Putin did not plan to have a meeting with Ratcliffe.The US last week asked Ukraine not to launch air strikes around Moscow, St Petersburg, and some northern territories of Russia on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week because a plane carrying a senior US official would be flying to the Russian capital, said a source familiar with the matter.
CIA chief Ratcliffe reportedly travels to Moscow for talks
Unannounced trip marks the first known visit to the Russian capital by a US spy chief since 2021.











