MADRID, 27 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
US CIA chief Williams Burns visited Ukraine in early October on an unannounced trip to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, CNN has reported.
“While (CIA chief Williams Burns) was there, he reinforced the US commitment to support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, including continued intelligence sharing,” a US official told the US channel. CNN without providing further details about the trip.
Burns’ trip comes at a time when Washington is “increasingly concerned” that Moscow will resort to the use of nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war.
US intelligence has publicly said that they have no evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing his troops to take this measure in the conflict, however, the officials consulted by the aforementioned chain indicate that the risk is “perhaps the highest since Russia” started the war in February.
Before this trip, the director of the CIA visited Ukraine in January this year, also without announcing the visit, a month before the start of the invasion by Russian troops. At that time, Burns met with the Ukrainian authorities to discuss the Russian military escalation that pointed to the start of the war.
