CIA: Russia does not want direct conflict with US

According to an annual assessment completed at the end of January and published by the Office of the Director for National Intelligence on Thursday, CNN writes, Periscopi forwards.

“Russia requires acomomming with the United States so that there will be no reciprocal interference in the external affairs of the two respective countries and US recognition of the sphere Russia claims to be influenced by it as former Soviet Union”, the document says.

The assessment comes at the time of tensions between Russia and the United States that are at the lowest point in recent decades following the invasion of Ukraine -- and at the time when Russian President Vladimir Putin, has publicly announced the possibility of using nuclear weapons, a statement that had panicked American officials, prcll Perskopi

According to the report, Moscow “sees its nuclear capabilities as necessary to preserve self-defence and achieve its goals in the event of a potential attack between the United States and NATO, and it names these nuclear weapons as the highest possible guarantor of the Russian Federation”. / P ERISCOPIA