Kremlin says Putin will not meet with CIA chief

The Kremlin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not meet with CIA Director John Ratcliffe during his visit to Moscow.

Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Interfax that “there are no meetings with the president” when asked whether Putin planned to receive Ratcliffe at the Kremlin.

Earlier, Peskov said that Ratcliffe’s visit was related to contacts between the intelligence services of Russia and the United States. He did not elaborate.