CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a surprise trip to Moscow on Tuesday to warn Russian President Vladimir Putin against attacking a NATO member, amid the Kremlin’s stalled war against Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal and Politico reported on Aug. 26, citing sources familiar with the matter. The warnings reportedly focused on Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – the three Baltic NATO members that border Russia.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The US intelligence community has previously assessed that Moscow could seek to “test NATO’s resolve” with a limited attack on an alliance member, according to the WSJ. US officials reportedly believe such an attack could involve a cyberattack or a small-scale ground incursion into one of the Baltic states. The assessment comes as Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to consume Western ammunition stocks, potentially creating vulnerabilities that Moscow could seek to exploit, according to WSJ sources. Ratcliffe also warned Putin against providing military and economic support to Iran, Politico reported. Neither Washington nor Moscow has publicly disclosed the results of Ratcliffe’s visit. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin did not meet with Ratcliffe and that the CIA chief’s contacts in Moscow were conducted at the intelligence-services level. US President Donald Trump described the trip as “partly routine.” After returning to Washington, however, Ratcliffe attended a closed-door meeting between Trump and senior US national security officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The meeting lasted about three hours.