Russia not preparing nuclear strikes: CIA chief

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The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says the intelligence community has seen no “practical evidence at this point of Russians planning for the deployment or even potential use of tactical nuclear weapons” in Ukraine.

Director William Burns was addressing a conference hosted by the Financial Times.

Russia announced it was placing its nuclear arsenal on high alert after launching the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, and Mr Burns warned: “Given the kind of saber rattling that … we’ve heard from the Russian leadership, we can’t take lightly those possibilities, BBC reports.

“So we stay very sharply focused as an intelligence service … on those impossibilities at a moment when the stakes are very high for Russia.”