CIA Director in Moscow for Meetings, US Media Reports
US media outlets say CIA director John Ratcliffe was in Russia to attend meetings.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on Tuesday, according to US news outlets such as CBS News and Axios. The visit marks his first known trip to Russia as CIA chief. The exact purpose and parties involved in the meetings remain undisclosed. Flightradar24 data indicated a US military transport plane from Latvia arrived in Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, later departing hours later.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on the arrival of a US military plane in the Russian capital. This would be the first known visit by a CIA director to Russia since the country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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