Trump says CIA director Ratcliffe’s mystery trip to Moscow was not to warn Putin against testing ‘NATO resolve’

Ratcliffe's visit was the first known trip to Russia by a CIA director since William Burns visited in late 2021.

Donald Trump expressed hope that the spy chief’s unannounced visit to Russia could help end the war in Ukraine.

John Ratcliffe travelled to the Russian capital on Tuesday in a rare and unannounced visit.

The Kremlin said that John Ratcliffe did not meet President Vladimir Putin during the trip.

The Kremlin says John Ratcliffe met Russian intelligence officials but not Vladimir Putin during his surprise visit to Moscow on Tuesday. The secrecy surrounding the trip fuelled speculation that the CIA director was carrying a warning from Washington.

Neither the White House or the Kremlin have offered an explanation for the first trip by a US spy chief to the Russian capital in nearly five years

The Russian government said that spy chief John Ratcliffe held talks with counterparts, but not President Vladimir Putin, on his Moscow trip.

CIA boss John Ratcliffe did not meet with President Putin during his surprise visit to Moscow on Tuesday, a Kremlin spokesman said.

A Kremlin spokesman said John Ratcliffe did not meet with Vladimir Putin and that it was "premature" to say whether the trip would affect fraught U.S.-Russia relations.

Ukraine resumed drone attacks on Moscow overnight into Wednesday morning, the city's Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said.

European countries have every reason to be concerned over John Ratcliffe's visit to Russia

Russian President informed about CIA chief's visit to Moscow: Kremlin after report on US mystery plane

CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Moscow for contacts between US and Russian intelligence services but did not meet President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. The unexpected visit prompted speculation that the discussions could have involved the war in Ukraine, a potential energy and port strike

The director of the CIA took a secret trip to Russia amid fears of aggression towards NATO.

A U.S. military plane landed at an airport in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe was among those on board. Charlie D'Agata reports.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe was in Moscow Tuesday for unannounced talks with the Kremlin, in the first such visit by a US spy chief since 2021.

CIA chief 'flies to Moscow for mystery talks with Russia'  lbc.co.uk

John Ratcliffe, director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the U.S., travelled to Moscow on Tuesday for meetings with Russian officials, U.S. media outlets reported, citing unnamed sources.

Washington reportedly alerted Ukraine to refrain from strikes until delegation leaves Moscow, US media reports.

US tells Ukraine to halt air strikes on Russian capital as John Ratcliffe flies in on military plane

CIA Director John Ratcliffe secretly visited Moscow aboard a not-so-secret C-17 Globemaster to engage in high-level discussions with Russian officials. His visit was reported by CBS News and was cited by Russian state media, including TASS. U.S. and Russian officials both declined to comment or claimed ignorance. Kreml

CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced visit to Moscow. He flew in from Riga aboard a U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 military transport plane that landed at Vnukovo Airport on the morning of Aug. 25. Around 7 p.m., it emerged that the American plane that had brought Ratcliffe had departed Moscow.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe Makes Surprise Trip to Moscow  WSJ

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe visited Moscow on Tuesday for meetings, in what would be his first known visit to Russia as CIA head, U.S. media reported.

Unannounced trip reported by US media is said to be Ratcliffe’s first known visit to Russia as CIA chief The CIA director, John Ratcliffe, has made an unannounced visit to Moscow, US media reported, after flight data showed an American military aircraft flew to the Russian capital, where a US diplomatic motorcade was l

If confirmed, it would mark Ratcliffe’s first known trip to Russia since becoming CIA directorA US Air Force C-17 military transport aircraft landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on Tuesday, triggering speculation over who was aboard and why the aircraft had flown to Russia at a time when US-Russia contacts over the Ukra

A US Air Force transport jet made a highly unusual landing in Moscow on Tuesday, sparking a frenzy of theories about its mysterious mission.

CIA director travels to Moscow in his first known Russia trip, CBS News reports  The Kyiv Independent

CIA director John Ratcliffe is visiting Moscow on Tuesday for talks with Russian officials, two U.S. officials said. Why it matters: This is Ratcliffe's first trip to Moscow since he took office and the highest-level visit by a Trump administration official to Russia since January. Ahead of Ratcliffe's trip, the U.S

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has traveled to Russia for meetings, according to people familiar with the matter, after the country’s state-run Tass news service reported a US military transport plane landed in Moscow on Tuesday.