Kremlin says British missile help for Ukraine ‘adds fuel to the fire’<\/a><\/p>\n“All I can tell you is that there have been contacts \u200bvia the security services. I can tell you that \u200bthere have been no meetings with the Russian president. Naturally, President \u200cPutin \u2060is kept informed of everything without delay,” said Peskov.<\/p>\n
Asked if visits by such senior US officials could help improve the dire state of US-Russia relations, Peskov said \u200bthat contacts \u200bbetween the two \u2060countries’ intelligence agencies were a positive thing.<\/p>\n
“These contacts often continue even during the \u200bmost difficult periods in bilateral relations. Our \u200bpresident, incidentally, \u2060has spoken about this. However, it is still too early to say to what extent this will, overall, \u2060help \u200bto steer our bilateral relations out \u200bof the profound crisis in which they currently find themselves,” he \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
US CIA Director John Ratcliffe held talks with Russian intelligence officials \u200bduring his visit to Moscow on Tuesday but did \u200cnot meet President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin had been briefed on \u200bthe outcome of Ratcliffe’s talks, which come \u200bas the war in Ukraine is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5171,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions\/5171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}