CIA director holds secret meeting with Zelenskyy on Russia’s next steps

CIA Director William J. Burns has traveled in secret to Ukraine’s capital at the end of last week to brief President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on his expectations for what Russia is planning militarily in the coming weeks and months, said a US official and other people familiar with the visit, Report informs referring to The Washington Post.

Burns’s travel comes at a critical juncture in the 11-month war.

Russian forces are mounting a massive assault near the eastern city of Bakhmut that is causing many casualties on both sides and forcing Ukraine to weigh its resources there as it prepares a major counteroffensive elsewhere in the country.