Russian spy chief says he discussed Ukraine with CIA head Russia media reports

The head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Naryshkin, held a phone call with CIA Director William Burns at the end of June, Russian state news agency TASS reported on July 12.

Naryshkin said, according to TASS, that the call lasted “about an hour” and the pair “reflected and reasoned about what to do with Ukraine,” CNN reports.

“The pretext for a telephone conversation, as I assess it, on the part of the American colleague was the events of June 24. It is clear how I answered the question about what happened,” Naryshkin is quoted by TASS as saying, referring to Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's short-lived rebellion.

The Russian intelligence chief reportedly said the potential for a personal meeting with Burns “exists.”

“Both phone conversations and the possibility of a personal meeting remain," he said, according to TASS.

CNN previously reported that Burns spoke to his Russian counterpart following the Wagner insurrection, according to a US official. After the failed mutiny by Prigozhin, Burns reached out to Naryshkin to reiterate that the US had nothing to do with it.