Sasha Vakulina – Euro News.com Aug 25, 2026
John Ratcliffe reportedly arrived in the Russian capital on Tuesday for meetings, in what appears to be his first visit to Russia as CIA director.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe reportedly arrived in Moscow on an unannounced trip on Tuesday, according to US media outlets.
CBS News reported that Ratcliffe was in the Russian capital, citing sources familiar with the situation.
Neither Washington nor Moscow have confirmed Ratcliffe’s presence, and it was not immediately clear who the US spy chief was expected to meet or what would be discussed.
News of the visit came after a US Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III transport aircraft landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport earlier in the day.
Flight-tracking data showed that the aircraft had arrived in Moscow from Riga. It landed in the Latvian capital on Sunday after departing from Camp Springs, Maryland, home to Joint Base Andrews near Washington.
The unexplained flight initially prompted speculation that senior US officials could be travelling to Moscow, including possibly President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who have repeatedly held talks with Russian officials.
US diplomatic motorcade was also spotted travelling through the Russian capital after the aircraft landed.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier on Tuesday that he had no information about the US military aircraft and that no meetings with representatives of the US administration were planned at the Kremlin this week.
First visit in five years
The reported visit comes just a day after Ukraine marked its 35th Independence Day, with European leaders travelling to Kyiv to demonstrate their support for the country defending itself from Russia’s ongoing all-out war.
No serving representatives of the Trump administration attended Monday’s events. Witkoff and Kushner did not attend either, despite earlier speculation that the anniversary could bring their first visit to Ukraine.
Neither envoy has travelled to Kyiv since taking a leading role in the Trump administration’s diplomatic efforts, despite repeated meetings with Russian officials and Witkoff’s eight visits to Moscow.
Ratcliffe has maintained contacts with his Russian intelligence counterparts and previously participated in negotiations with Moscow.
He was directly involved in negotiations with a senior Russian intelligence official that led to the April 2025 release of US-Russian dual national Ksenia Karelina.
The last CIA director known to have travelled to Moscow was William Burns in November 2021, months before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Migrant crime victims urge Labour to publish the data on foreign offences
Story by Susanna Siddell • 8h • 2 min read
Victims of crimes committed by migrants have banded together to encourage Labour to publish data on foreign offences.
As it stands, the Government has been accused of “covering up” the full extent of foreign offending across England and Wales from 2018 to 2024 by preventing the publication of complete data on crime statistics.
In a letter addressed to Justice Secretary Alex Norris, victims, bolstered by their families’ support, have called on Labour to drop plans to avoid the data’s publication.
They argue the release of the data is “clearly and legitimately in the public interest”.
“The public deserves to see the facts for themselves, and the country urgently needs an informed debate about the consequences of immigration policy,” the letter adds.
Foreign gangs have been coming just to commit crimes, 600 police stations closed last year to save money
which then went toward the migrants bill
It continues: “Imagine if someone you loved had been attacked, abused, or killed by a person who had entered Britain from abroad.
and should not even be here
“We believe that victims and the wider public deserve transparency about the people who enter our country and the crimes they subsequently commit. “Migrant crime victims urge Labour to stop the cover up and publish data on foreign offences
Story by Susanna Siddell • 8h • 2 min read Victims of crimes committed by migrants have banded together to encourage Labour to publish data on foreign offences.
As it stands, the Government has been accused of “covering up” the full extent of foreign offending across England and Wales from 2018 to 2024 by preventing the publication of complete data on crime statistics.
UK faces surge in youngsters cutting back on food as 23-year-old tells of food bank ‘shame’
Story by Sophie Huskisson •
Newly released figures from food banks in the Trussell community show more than 240,000 food parcels were provided to 17 to 24-year-olds last year
Newly released figures from food banks in the Trussell community show more than 240,000 food parcels were provided to 17 to 24-year-olds last year, with many in severe poverty
Almost a third of young people aged 16-25 have cut back on food so they can afford other essentials in the last three months, grim research shows.
One in six (18%) young people have skipped meals to afford travel to work or education in the last three months, rising to 32% among young people who grew up in hardship, a study by anti-poverty charity Trussell found. And one in seven (14%) have gone without toiletries such as toothpaste, shampoo or sanitary products in the past three months so they could afford food or utilities. This more than doubles to one in three (33%) among young people who experienced hardship growing up.
Newly released figures from food banks in the Trussell community show more than 240,000 food parcels were provided to 17 to 24-year-olds last year, up 53% from 157,000 in 2019. The study is extensive with more than 4,741 people aged 16 to 25 in the UK surveyed in June by Savanta on behalf of Trussell.
Many are anxious how they will cope with winter coming, and there is anger over migrants getting so much from the state
with the bill for migrants now topping £42 billion, suicide figures among the young have gone through the roof
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Just letting them know they are going to use nuks
Oh great.
So Radcliffe is going to agree to relinquish Jewkraine back to Russian control, in a deal for no interference with the take over of Torquay. as a Geordie would say….:-)
They’ll both decide to resume ‘hostilities’ & argue over Persia (Iran) later on.
The Persians need a breather, they’ll build up ‘resourses’ sure enough. As will the Euro-tards ready & a little more able to take on the Ruskkies..
A Bacon & Egg teacake for breakfast are a knock out, Pint pot-o tea in a ceramic mug. which culture came up with that ! wow, just wow.
An AP reporter spends the night locked inside Jerusalem’s holiest church with clergy and pilgrims
Story by Giovanna Dell’orto •
Night at Holy Sepulcher church
The enormous doors were pushed shut, the clanking bolts secured from the outside and several clergy, pilgrims and one journalist — me — were locked for the night inside one of Christianity’s holiest sites in Jerusalem.
Both Christians and muslims stay inside as the israeli IDF want to demolish it for a military outpost
so people have to maintain a presence inside at all times
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher was built over the spots where Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead.
Through many centuries, as Muslim rulers governed this region and changing politics affected the influence of religious powers, an arrangement evolved as unique as the church’s jumbled architecture. Today, the Armenian Apostolic, Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches share the ownership of the worship space. and protect it as best they can from the jew
This is interesting. The head of CIA’s theatre dept, with 7million actors at his disposal, recently went to Cuba, and now Russia. The guy is planning something big, huge, bigger than Hollywood, chatting it up with those fake Russians.
LOL…
Is the TS admin coming to its senses…allusions in the strapline to this terminally boring screed seem to indicate that this may be possible and as such may be a turning point…philo russianism..is surely not posited on the blather of CiA moles paid via the gremlins in the kremlin..
the endless circular mendacious bloviations of the intel crowd… the lol, alphabet dissidents..
yeah sure…
play it Sham…
“US officials could be travelling to Moscow, including possibly President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who have repeatedly held talks with Russian officials.” .. I’m sure that went well, seeing how those two festering assholes are so charismatic and all. Zion Don should have just pimp-slapped the Russians with a giant rubber dong, which would have been exponentially less insulting than those chabadnik shit-stains showing up. Send in the f*cking clowns.