WASHINGTON — CIA Director William Burns traveled to Kyiv last week, where he sought to reassure Ukrainian leaders that the U.S. would maintain support as the war drags on.
Burns, who last visited in November, reinforced that commitment in meetings with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and his Ukrainian intelligence counterparts, according to a U.S. official.
The trip was in keeping with Burns’s occasional role as interlocutor with both Russia and Ukraine. He has made such trips to lay out U.S. intelligence over the conflict, as he did with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the invasion began last February, in an effort to persuade the Russian leader to change his mind and not go ahead with the invasion.
