The CIA director’s warning to his Russian counterpart about the atomic bomb: “It will have consequences”

The director of the INCWilliam Burns, meets this Monday with his Russian counterpart to tell him that the use of nuclear weapons, which Moscow has threatened to deploy in the war in UkraineIt has consequences, the White House reported.

Burns must convey a message to Russian Sergei Naryshkinhead of the SVR, the Russian foreign intelligence service, on “the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons by Russia and the risks of an escalation for strategic stability,” said a spokesman for the White House National Security Council.

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At the moment it has not been possible to confirm if the meeting has already been held.

Burns “It does not carry out negotiations of any kind” and “does not discuss an agreement for the war in Ukraine,” the same source insisted, adding that the Ukrainians were previously informed of the meeting.

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The US official will discuss with his counterpart the case of the Americans “unfairly” detained in Russia.

Basketball player Brittney Griner, sentenced to nine years in prison for “drug trafficking”, and another American, ex-military man Paul Whelan, are being held in Russia.

President Joe Biden said he hopes his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, be more willing to talk about a prisoner swap with the United States.

The meeting between Burns and Naryshkin is one of the few high-level ones since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine on February 24.

But the United States and Russia have always maintained “channels of communication,” particularly through the US embassy in Moscow, on bilateral issues or to convey messages about Ukraine.

Source: Elcomercio

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