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President Donald Trump said John Ratcliffe's trip to Russia was a "semi-routine" visit but there is nothing routine about the CIA chief making a secret, 10,000-mile return dash to Moscow. Ratcliffe met Russian intelligence officials on Tuesday - notably his opposite number in Russia's overseas spy agency, Sergei Naryshkin - after arriving unannounced on a US military plane, the Kremlin confirmed. One US official told Politico that the "meeting was primarily to warn Russia against any escalatory action against the Baltic states". You don't need the world's most powerful electronic eavesdropping organisation – the US National Security Agency – to know that Putin is under mounting domestic pressure to "do something" to break the deadlock. Ukraine's deep strikes with long-range drones have not only hammered Russia's energy industry, they have brought the war home to ordinary Russians. BBC 27 August 2026 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles...