Gen Mark Milley says no one should have any illusions about difficulty of Ukrainian offensive
- What we know on day 493 of the invasion
The director of the CIA, William Burns, called the Russian spy chief Sergei Naryshkin after last weekend’s aborted mutiny in Russia to assure the Kremlin that the US had no role in it, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have reported.
Burns’ phone call with Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service, took place during the week and was the highest-level contact between the two governments since the attempted mutiny, Reuters reported the WSJ as saying.
Russian troops, in a direct hit, destroyed a school where civilians were located.
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