India, Aug. 27 -- Some US media reports on Thursday claimed that CIA Director John Ratcliffe warned Russia against attacking a NATO member country during his Moscow trip. However, Kremlin has now denied such assertions, calling them "scare-story material".

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "A lot of this kind of scare-story material is being published right now. Of course, it has nothing to do with reality and nothing to do with the intentions of the Russian Federation."

Ratcliffe's first official visit to Moscow as CIA chief was in part because he wanted to warn Russia not to attack NATO countries, Wall Street Journal had reported. The report further said that Russian President Vladimir Putin could consider launching an assault ran...