According to the Neue Zürcher Zeitungso, quoted by RIA Novosti, Biden gave such an instruction to Burns in mid-January.

After the failure of the mission of the director of the CIA, the American president decided to supply Ukraine with Abrams tanks, the material says.

According to Newsweek, the White House called such press allegations completely false.

The CIA reacted to the publications in the same way.

The American newspaper The Washington Post previously wrote that Burns secretly traveled to Kyiv in mid-January to inform Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about Russia's alleged "plans".

The Kremlin noted that there is benefit in the dialogue between the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, and the head of the US Central Intelligence Agency.