The British media would have been raging and howling about sinister Kremlin meddling.

Well, as far as I know, no such visit took place. But something just as astonishing did happen. John Brennan, Director  of the CIA, was, in fact, in Kiev last week, and I do not think he was there for the nightlife.

It is, by any measure, a hugely interesting fact that such a person, who seldom ventures out  at all, was in Ukraine at a moment of great tension. Yet the information was buried by British news media.