The heads of U.S. and Russian intelligence spoke by phone and agreed to resume "regular contact" as Washington D.C. seeks to move toward a ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv. The news also come as after the U.S. resumed intelligence sharing with Ukraine following its willingness to accept a 30-day cessation of hostilities in the war.
Russian state news agency TASS said on Wednesday that CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) had a conversation the past day, the first such communication since November 2022. The agency added that the two also agreed to "reduce confrontation in relations between Moscow and Washington."
