{"id":6072,"date":"2026-08-26T19:12:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:12:58","slug":"cia-director-visits-putin-in-moscow-in-talks-that-trump-calls-sort-of-semi-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6072","title":{"rendered":"CIA director visits Putin in Moscow in talks that Trump calls \u2018sort of semi-routine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Ratcliffe did not meet with\u00a0Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was informed of the contacts that were \u201con the intelligence agencies\u2019 level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6070\">Famed cult actor Tim Curry, star of \u2018Rocky Horror Picture Show\u2019 and \u2018Home Alone 2,\u2019 dead at 80<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, President Putin is immediately informed of everything,\u201d Peskov added, refusing to say what was discussed.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Russian state news agencies reported that a U.S. military plane landed in Moscow\u2019s Vnukovo airport on Tuesday and departed later that day.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump played down the significance of Ratcliffe\u2019s trip, saying it was \u201csort of semi-routine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate to disappoint people,\u201d he said on conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck\u2019s radio show Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A senior Ukrainian official told The Associated Press that Washington informed Kyiv a delegation would be traveling to the Russian capital and asked it to suspend strikes until it left. The official said the request did not apply to all Russian territory, but specifically to Moscow, St. Petersburg and some northern regions. Strikes on other parts of Russia continued, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk publicly.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News first reported on the visit.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Kremlin says US-Russia relations are in a \u2018profound crisis\u2019<\/h4>\n<p>Peskov said that \u201ccontacts between intelligence agencies are, in and of themselves, a positive phenomenon, a positive process,\u201d but he stressed that Russia-U.S. relations remain in a \u201cprofound crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He added that it was \u201ctoo early to say\u201d what impact Ratcliffe\u2019s visit would have on the ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Andrei Soldatov, an expert on Russia\u2019s security services, told AP that visits like the one by Ratcliffe do not \u201chappen every year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Official channels of communication between Moscow and Washington have been kept alive since the 1980s and exist so both sides can talk if American or Russian lives are in danger or for other reasons, Soldatov said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2021, Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Putin\u2019s Security Council,\u00a0met CIA Director William Burns in Moscow\u00a0months before Russian forces invaded Ukraine.\u00a0Burns later met Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia\u2019s foreign intelligence agency, in Turkey in November 2022 to warn Russia not to deploy a nuclear weapon in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6068\">Meta\u2019s $17.1 billion settlement will be over 12-times larger than the second largest big tech privacy settlement in the past four years<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Details of Tuesday\u2019s discussions have not been revealed but such meetings normally take place only when there is a matter of pressing national security and when it is in \u201cAmerican national interests,\u201d Soldatov said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia-U.S. relations sank to Cold War lows after Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but appeared to warm after Trump returned to office. He had promised to end the war swiftly, holding multiple phone calls with Putin and even hosting him in Alaska a year ago.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In his radio appearance Wednesday, Trump repeated that he wants to see the Russia-Ukraine war end.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to negotiate a peace deal have largely stalled, with U.S. attention turning to its\u00a0war with Iran\u00a0and both Moscow and Kyiv\u00a0stepping up their long-range attacks\u00a0on each other.\u00a0Putin has rejected\u00a0Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s push for an immediate ceasefire, arguing that Russia wants a comprehensive settlement, not a temporary truce.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has proposed to mediate in the U.S. and Israel\u2019s war with Iran, Moscow\u2019s important ally in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Russia and Iran have a partnership treaty<\/h4>\n<p>After Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, Tehran provided Russia with Shahed drones and later licensed their production in Russia. In January 2025, Moscow and Tehran signed a \u201ccomprehensive strategic partnership\u201d treaty. But even as it has built ties with Iran, Russia also has remained friendly with Israel, and analysts have described its relations with Iran as complex and challenging.<\/p>\n<p>In March, AP reported\u00a0that Russia provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region, according to two officials familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter. The officials, who were not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity, cautioned that the U.S. intelligence has not uncovered that Russia is directing Iran on what to do with the information.<\/p>\n<p>Asked at the time whether Russia would go beyond political support and offer military assistance to Iran, Peskov said there has been no such request from Tehran. Pressed on whether Moscow provided any military or intelligence assistance to Tehran since the Iran war\u2019s start, he refrained from comment.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Soldatov said it\u2019s possible Tuesday\u2019s meeting involved protecting U.S. personnel, bases or facilities in the Middle East that have been targeted by Iran. Ratcliffe could have traveled to Moscow to try to influence this relationship, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Volodymyr Yurchuk in Kyiv, Ukraine, Bill Barrow in Atlanta and Emma Burrows in London contributed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6066\">A major German bank just let Claude and ChatGPT trade for customers. 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