The head of the CIA: America is not involved in Wagner’s rebellion.
According to the Wall Street Journal, on Friday William Burns, the head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), called Sergei Naryshkin, the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, and told him that the United States had nothing to do with the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the commander of the Wagners. against the Russian army.
According to this newspaper, this phone conversation between Burns and Naryshkin is the highest level of interaction between America and Russia since this incident, and the American side initiated the call while emphasizing that America had “no interference” in Yevgeny Prigogine’s actions, adding that America does not intend to escalate tensions in Russia.
While there have been reports of a strong disagreement between the officials of the Russian Ministry of Defense and Prigozhin on how to manage the war in Ukraine, on the night of June 23, some of Wagner’s units led by Prigozhin occupied the city of Rostov and hours later, according to their own words, They started the “March of Justice” towards Moscow. But the next day, with the mediation of Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, Prigozhin ordered his units to withdraw, and on June 27, he went to Belarus with some members of his group. Russia, in turn, announced that it would stop pursuing him and other rebels until it ends well.
