FBI Director Kash Patel is planning a trip to Russia this October, a visit that would make him the first bureau chief to set foot in the country since 2013, at a time when US-Russia relations are frozen over the war in Ukraine. The tentative 14–15 October window would take Patel to Moscow and St Petersburg, with the FSB expected to host him.
Should the visit happen, Patel would be the first FBI director to set foot in Russia since Robert Mueller's trip back in 2013.