{"id":373490,"date":"2026-08-27T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/kremlin-confirms-cia-moscow-visit-as-trump-plays-it-down-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T01:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:00:29","slug":"kremlin-confirms-cia-moscow-visit-as-trump-plays-it-down-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/kremlin-confirms-cia-moscow-visit-as-trump-plays-it-down-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin confirms CIA Moscow visit as Trump plays it down | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/cd-L-nhmyrM\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Kremlin confirms CIA Moscow visit as Trump plays it down | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cd-L-nhmyrM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Why did CIA Director John Ratcliffe travel to Moscow? Washington and the Kremlin are offering different signals about the secretive talks. Professor Scott Lucas explains what the visit could mean for Ukraine and US-Russia relations.<br \/>\n#dwcurrentaffairs <\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n00:00 Kremlin confirms CIA director\u2019s Moscow visit<br \/>\n00:29 Interview Scott Lucas, professor of American studies at University College Dublin<br \/>\n00:51 Why the CIA director\u2019s visit was neither routine nor semi-routine<br \/>\n02:04 The likely purpose of the Moscow talks<br \/>\n03:46 The state of US-Russia relations<br \/>\n04:17 The US administration is split over Ukraine<br \/>\n05:12 Channels of communication between the US and Ukraine<br \/>\n05:47 \u201cWe do have US agencies that are working with Kyiv at this critical time\u201d<br \/>\n06:18 The extent of Russia\u2019s influence on Iran<\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did CIA Director John Ratcliffe travel to Moscow? Washington and the Kremlin are offering different signals about the secretive talks. Professor Scott Lucas explains what the visit could mean for Ukraine and US-Russia relations. #dwcurrentaffairs Chapters: 00:00 Kremlin confirms CIA director\u2019s Moscow visit 00:29 Interview Scott Lucas, professor of American studies at University College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":373491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-373490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kremlin confirms CIA Moscow visit as Trump plays it down | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Kremlin confirms CIA Moscow visit as Trump plays it down | DW News for free, here on News ISC. 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