BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | August 25, 2026: “Something happened, force majeure”?: Why did the CIA director secretly fly to Moscow, causing President Putin to change his the schedule? An American plane in the sky over the capital caused a lot of chatter. There was no appearance of Ukrainian drones flying towards the Moscow region today, and it became clear why. The CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Moscow for the first time. Sources say that on the eve of Ratcliffe’s trip, the United States warned Kiev to suspend strikes. But the question arise, why did Ratcliffe come anyway? (Battleforworld.com: Sources are reporting that Moscow is now ready to escalate the Ukraine conflict to include NATO targets.)  – The visit is urgent and unplanned. The Russian president even changed his schedule to meet with Ratcliffe. The speculation is, that most likely, the information is secret and only for personal transmission. And Telegram channel Tsargrad by political analyst Leonid Krutakov, said: “Since this is an unspoken meeting, it means that if this is a kind of hidden format of negotiations, it means that something has happened, some kind of force majeure, and they want to discuss it faster.”

Military commander Alexander Kotz noted that ”The director of the CIA is not a paper courier. He flies when he needs to say something out loud, looking into his eyes, that they won’t trust the communication channel. In 2021, Burns was carrying a warning to Moscow. We all remember well how such visits end.” (Battleforworld.com: “Former CIA Director William Burns traveled to Moscow in November 2021, when he met with senior Russian officials and spoke directly with President Vladimir Putin to warn him against invading Ukraine.”)

CIA Director John Ratcliffe

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