CIA director called Kremlin to assure US had no role in aborted mutiny —reports

Fighters of the Wagner personal mercenary group are deployed in a road close to the headquarters of the Southern Military District within the metropolis of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023. News experiences say CIA Director William Burns known as Russian spy chief Sergei Naryshkin to tell him that the US had no function within the tried mutiny by the Wagner group. REUTERS/Stringer/File picture

WASHINGTON – CIA Director William Burns known as Russian spy chief Sergei Naryshkin after final week’s aborted mutiny in Russia to guarantee the Kremlin that the United States had no function in it, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. 

Burns’ telephone name with Naryshkin, the top of Russia’s SVR overseas intelligence service, befell this week and was the highest-level contact between the 2 governments because the tried mutiny, the Wall Street Journal stated.

The boss of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, shocked the world by main final week’s armed revolt, solely to abruptly name it off as his fighters approached Moscow.

President Joe Biden stated on Monday the transient rebellion by Russian mercenaries in opposition to the Kremlin was a part of a battle throughout the Russian system and that the United States and its allies weren’t concerned in it. —Reuters