In a telephonic conversation this week, the director of United States' CIA informed Russian Intelligence Director that Washington had no role in the Wagner mutiny.
According to reports, CIA Director William Burns called Russia's spy agency Foreign Intelligence Service chief Sergey Naryshkin and told the US was uninvolved in the mutiny. Reuters reported that it was the highest-level contact between the two governments since the
attempted mutiny.
TASS agency reported that the American side initiated the conversation to deliver a message that the US "had no involvement" in Wagner's actions. CIA intended to communicate the US did not intend to exacerbate tensions in Russia, reports said.
A feud between Wagner Group leader Prigozhin and Russia's military brass that has festered throughout the war erupted into a mutiny that saw the mercenaries leave Ukraine to seize a military headquarters in a southern Russian city and roll seemingly unopposed for hundreds of miles toward Moscow, before turning around after less than a day on June 24. The Kremlin made a deal for Prigozhin to move to Belarus and receive amnesty, along with his soldiers.
