The visit to Moscow is the latest instance in which Trump has turned to his CIA director to help navigate tense diplomatic negotiations with a major U.S. adversary. Ratcliffe also traveled secretly to Cuba this May to warn the country’s communist regime to make fundamental reforms or risk a U.S. pressure campaign.

President Donald Trump’s central intelligence chief traveled to Moscow this week with a warning to Russia not to stage an attack in NATO territory, among other issues, according to two people familiar with the matter.

A video has emerged showing a U.S. military C-17A Globemaster III aircraft approaching for a landing at Moscow, Russia's Vnukovo airport on Wednesday.

"I am grateful for the information and for the necessary tone of the conversation with Russia," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The tone between London and Moscow is growing increasingly harsh. After Ukraine struck Donetsk with the Franco-British Storm Shadow cruise missile, the Kremlin is furious: Moscow is threatening to launch attacks on British military forces in Ukraine “and beyond.

(Refiles to include extra subscribers. No change to text) By Anna Peverieri Aug 28 (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that the United States had given Kyiv information about a number of meetings in Moscow over the last few days.

The Kremlin says CIA Director John Ratcliffe held talks in Moscow with his intelligence counterparts, a rare and secretive visit at a time when relations with Washington remain strained over Russia’s

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he didn’t have information about the U.S. government aircraft that landed in Russia.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Moscow on Tuesday, prompting speculation over the reasons for the unannounced trip that lasted only a few hours. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Pesko

The director of the CIA made a surprise visit to Moscow for talks with Russian officials, but both capitals remained tight-lipped on purpose of the trip.

John Ratcliffe flew to Moscow in a military cargo plane from Riga, Latvia. It is not clear whom he met or what the purpose of his trip was.

Flight trackers exposed CIA Director John Ratcliffe's Russia trip before officials did, while the mission's purpose remained hidden.