CIA director in Moscow for meetings — US media reports
US media outlets say John Ratcliffe was in Russia to attend meetings. Flight tracking websites had earlier detected the arrival of a US military transport plane at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Moscow on Tuesday to attend meetings, according to US news outlets CBS News and Axios. However, both publications did not disclose the identities of the individuals Ratcliffe met with or the subjects discussed during the meetings. According to CBS News, this was Ratcliffe's first known visit to Russia in his capacity as CIA chief.
Axios independently confirmed Ratcliffe's trip, citing a US official. Earlier in the day, Flightradar24 data indicated that a US military transport plane operated by the US Air Force had flown from Latvia to Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. The same aircraft reportedly departed Moscow a few hours later. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to provide any information regarding the arrival of a US military plane in the Russian capital when asked about the matter.
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