The Russian intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, has assured that he had an hour-long telephone conversation with the head of the CIA, Bill Burns, after the mutiny organized by the Wagner Group against Moscow, as reported by the Russian agency TASS. In said conversation, the rebellion and “what to do with Ukraine” were discussed.
“Yes, indeed, there was a conversation at the end of last month. The way I see it, the events of June 24 served as a pretext for a phone call from my American counterpart” Naryshkin said in his interview with the agency. “It seems to me that it was largely a pretext [para concertar una llamada] because most of the conversation focused on talking about Ukraine and events related to it. We thought and deliberated about what should be done regarding Ukraine,” she added.
So much The New York Times as The Wall Street Journal They informed on June 30 of Burns’s telephone call to Naryshkin to ensure that the United States had had nothing to do with the mutiny, which occurred a week earlier.
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The CIA has not commented on the matter.
Since the start of the war, both have kept the lines of conversation open, something that stands out in comparison with other Russian and American organizations, paralyzed by the discrepancies between the two powers.
Naryshkin declared to TASS that negotiations on the war will be possible at some point. “It is natural that negotiations are possible sooner or later, because any conflict, including armed, ends with negotiationsbut the conditions for this have yet to mature,” said Naryshkin.
