William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, known as the chief of Russia’s international intelligence service after final week’s riot to guarantee the Kremlin that the United States had no involvement in it, in response to a U.S. official.

Mr. Burns known as Sergei Naryshkin, the chief of Russia’s international intelligence service, which is called the S.V.R., mentioned the official, who was briefed on the decision and spoke on situation of anonymity to debate intelligence issues. The two males have met a minimum of as soon as earlier than, in Turkey, to debate issues over the specter of nuclear escalation in Russia’s struggle in Ukraine.

The C.I.A. declined on Friday to touch upon the matter, which was earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The Biden administration has taken pains to emphasise to Russian officers that the United States was not concerned within the aborted efforts by Yevgeny V. Prigozhin and his Wagner non-public navy firm to drive Russian protection officers from their places of work in southern Russia or of their march to Moscow, and that the U.S. considered the matter as an inside Russian affair.

In public feedback, Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian international minister, has appeared to just accept these explanations, noting that the United States additionally urged Ukraine to chorus from making an attempt to reap the benefits of the riot. U.S. officers requested Ukraine to not perform any covert assaults.