“It is clear that you are the best in the whole world,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
The President thanked the agents for their service and noted that he was able to observe the history of the CIA not 75 years, but only 52.
Biden also said that "professionals have done a job worthy of the name of art, predicting the plans of Vladimir Putin in Ukraine."
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview with the Bosnian-Serbian television and radio company Radio and Television of the Republika Srpska, said that hundreds of CIA and British intelligence officers have been working in Ukraine for about 10 years.
According to the minister, these foreign intelligence officers in Ukraine "by and large control everything."
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during the collegium of the military department announced the intention of the West to provoke Kyiv "to fight to the last Ukrainian."