For those still stuck in a Cold War mindset this will seem hard to accept, but the fact is that the United States’ CIA and Russia’s SVR have been engaged in frequent talks, a line of communication that has proven vital for the ongoing détente between the two nuclear superpowers.
The negotiations between the two intelligence agencies have already bore fruit in this case: US and Russia Swap Prisoners in Abu Dhabi, Free ‘Wrongfully Imprisoned’ Ballerina Ksenia Karelina in Victory for Trump Diplomacy.
Now, the Russian side is divulging further talks, floating the possibility of a deeper engagement.
TASS reported:
“Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin has announced a potential meeting with CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
’I had a telephone conversation with my colleague, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. It was a very constructive conversation. So, I do not rule out the possibility of a meeting in the near future’, Naryshkin told TASS.”
Anadolu agency reported:
“Russian-American dialogue has seen renewed momentum since Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Delegations from both countries met in Saudi Arabia on Feb. 19 for negotiations that lasted nearly five hours. Additionally, two rounds of bilateral consultations were held in Istanbul.
US presidential envoy Steven Witkoff is expected to visit Moscow this week.”
This comes as Trump pushes for a speedy peace deal and lashed at Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky for disrupting the London negotiations.
“’The situation for Ukraine is dire — He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country’, he wrote on Truth Social.”
SVR’s Naryshkin was also in the headlines commenting over different options regarding the fate of Zelensky after the war.
In a separate TASS report, we learn:
“’I can only assume that all sorts of options are possible in terms of Zelensky’s plans and fate’, Naryshkin said, answering a question about the possibility of Zelensky’s escape from Kiev.
In February, the press bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation reported that ‘NATO headquarters is preparing a large-scale operation to discredit Zelensky’.”
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