Russian authorities denied on Thursday having plans for an attack against NATO amid speculation about the purpose of the surprise visit to Moscow by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, which both countries have downplayed and framed as “routine” contacts between their intelligence services.
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“These days many horror stories are being published that have nothing to do with reality or Russia’s intentions,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, following reports by the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal about alleged Moscow plans for an attack in the coming years against a NATO country.
Thus, he reiterated that Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine “to guarantee its security and interests” and again denounced that Moscow “faces a very aggressive policy from European countries,” according to the Russian news agency Interfax. “This aggression comes from European countries and any argument to the contrary is a distortion of reality and a falsehood,” he concluded.
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The words of the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin came after recent contacts with Ratcliffe and after the White House occupant, Donald Trump, denied that the CIA chief had traveled to Moscow to issue a warning about NATO’s red lines, a theory that has gained strength in light of the trip made to Russia by then agency director William Burns, a few months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began.
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