Moscow says another meeting between spy chiefs of Russia, US can't be ruled out
The Kremlin says another meeting between the spy chiefs of Russia and the United States cannot be ruled out, as relations between Moscow and Washington continue to be at a post-Cold War low over the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia's SVR Foreign Intelligence Service, and US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns met in the Turkish capital of Ankara in November last year, almost nine months into the war between Russia and Ukraine.
During the meeting, Burns, according to US officials, warned Naryshkin about the consequences of any use of nuclear weapons by Russia in its war with Ukraine.
In early November 2021, Burns, who speaks Russian, also flew to Moscow to convey "serious" US concerns to Russian President Vladimir Putin about Moscow's military buildup along the Ukrainian border.
"It can't be ruled out, and of course this kind of dialog makes sense... I don't know about exact dates," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday, when asked about the prospect of another meeting between Naryshkin and Burns.
Earlier on Tuesday, Naryshkin had told TASS that a meeting between him and Burns was possible.
Russia started what it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, claiming that the country was about to join NATO. Since then, the United States and Europe have imposed waves of unprecedented economic sanctions on Moscow and have given Ukraine tens of billions of dollars' worth of weaponry.
The Kremlin has time and again warned the sanctions and the Western military assistance will only prolong the war.
While Moscow perceives the war in Ukraine as an existential battle with an aggressive West, Washington and its allies claim that Russia has launched an imperial land grab.
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