{"id":1740721,"date":"2022-11-16T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T11:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740721"},"modified":"2022-11-16T08:03:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:03:37","slug":"u-s-and-russian-spy-chiefs-meet-in-turkey-for-face-to-face-talks-about-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-and-russian-spy-chiefs-meet-in-turkey-for-face-to-face-talks-about-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Russian Spy Chiefs Meet in Turkey for Face-to-Face Talks About Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-and-russian-spy-chiefs-meet-in-turkey-for-face-to-face-talks-about-ukraine-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740721&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2022-11\/GettyImages-1244716109.jpg?h=a5ae579a&#038;itok=jYO0_h7W\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>US and Russian spy chiefs traveled to Turkey&#8217;s capital for a delicate meeting amid increasing fears that Russia may be readying to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2022\/11\/iran-hypersonic-missile-claim-raises-nuclear-watchdog-concern\">nuclear weapons<\/a> in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>CIA Director William Burns warned his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin against using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, a White House official noted.<\/p>\n<p>Burns was to deliver a message to his Russian counterpart, &#8220;on the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons by Russia, and the risks of escalation to strategic stability,&#8221; the official, who spoke to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/russian-us-officials-holding-talks-turkey-kommersant-2022-11-14\/\">Reuters<\/a>, added.<\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/kremlin-neither-confirms-nor-denies-talks-with-us-turkey-2022-11-14\/\">Kremlin<\/a> said it could neither confirm nor deny the meeting, Russia&#8217;s Kommersant newspaper reported that a Russian delegation headed by Naryshkin, the head of Russia&#8217;s foreign intelligence agency, traveled to Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was hosted by Turkey&#8217;s National Intelligence Agency (MIT), the Turkish press reported.<\/p>\n<p>The talks came as fears are increasing over Russia\u2019s potential use of tactical nuclear weapons in the face of heavy losses to Ukrainian forces, particularly\u200b\u200b to the west of the Dnieper River.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The US press reported in early November on discussions between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ukraine-war-russia-nuclear-weapons-us-intelligence\/\">senior Russian officials<\/a> over the possible use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2022\/10\/iran-directly-engaged-russias-war-ukraine-white-house-says\">tactical nuclear weapons<\/a> in the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian army\u2019s recapture of the Ukrainian city of Kherson this week marked a landmark triumph by the Ukrainian army in some nine months of war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House official stressed that Burns\u2019 talks with his Russian counterpart were not\u00a0negotiations over the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed the meeting as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/interfax.com\/newsroom\/top-stories\/84913\/\">very positive<\/a>&#8221; and an &#8220;extremely relevant development in relation to the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UN is not involved. I think it is very positive that the U.S. and Russia have talks because that is an extremely relevant development,&#8221; Guterres told journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and Russian spy chiefs traveled to Turkey&#8217;s capital for a delicate meeting amid increasing fears that Russia may be readying to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.CIA Director William Burns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1740724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}