Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency William Burns in an interview CBS News said his last meeting with Russian intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin in November was depressing.
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“There was a very impudent attitude on the part of Mr. Naryshkin. A feeling of self-confidence and arrogance. A feeling, it seems to me, reflecting Putin’s own point of view, his own belief that he can make time work for himself, that he can grind the Ukrainians, that he can exhaust our European allies. That, in the end, political fatigue will set in,” he said.
The meeting between Burns and Naryshkin took place in November in Turkey.
Little is known about her, but The New York Times wrote that Naryshkin told Burns that Russia was ready for any losses in order to defeat Ukraine.