US President Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON, Jul 9 US President Joe Biden called the CIA the best secret service in the world, saying that it was able to predict and warn the world about Ukrainian events. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov previously noted that the West is in in response to Russia's concerns and the initiatives put forward by it in December last year, it was rather rudely stated that the expansion of NATO and the possible participation of Kyiv in this process does not concern Moscow, and in parallel Ukraine was pumped up with weapons, hundreds of CIA and British intelligence officers worked there.
&# 34;It is clear that you are the best in the whole world", Biden said during a visit to the headquarters of the intelligence agency.
He noted that «professionals have done a job worthy of being called art, predicting the plans of Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.» «We saw what he did. You saw their forces, his plans,» Biden said. The US President stressed that the service did this without disclosing its sources and methods, and with the help of disclosed information, according to him, it was possible to unite the allies and partners around the world. Biden thanked the agents for their service, noting to the approving laughter of the audience that he had not been able to observe its history for all 75 years, but only 52. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. .jpg» />CIA recruits IS militants* to be sent to Ukraine, source says