New hype house address8/15/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But national security spokesman John Kirby addressed one concern raised frequently as the world watched the cracks opening in Putin’s hold on power - worries that the Russian leader might take extreme action to reassert his command. He said he had directed them to “prepare for a range of scenarios” as Russia’s crisis unfolded.īiden did not elaborate on the scenarios. They rolled for hundreds of kilometers toward Moscow, before turning around on Saturday, in a deal whose terms remain uncertain.īiden’s national security team briefed him hourly as Prigozhin’s forces were on the move, the president said. and NATO “don’t want to be blamed for the appearance of trying to destabilize Putin,” McFaul said.Ī feud between the Wagner Group leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and Russia’s military brass that has festered throughout the war erupted into the mutiny that saw the mercenaries leave Ukraine to seize a military headquarters in a southern Russian city. involvement in events - including democratic uprisings in former Soviet countries, and campaigns by democracy activists inside and outside Russia - as a way to diminish public support among Russians for those challenges to the Russian system. ambassador to Russia, said that Putin in the past has alleged clandestine U.S. only a bystander, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said. diplomats were in contact with their counterparts in Moscow to underscore that the American government regarded the matter as a domestic affair for Russia, with the U.S. Over the course of a tumultuous weekend in Russia, U.S. Putin, in his first public comments since the rebellion, said “Russia’s enemies” had hoped the mutiny would succeed in dividing and weakening Russia, “but they miscalculated.” He identified the enemies as “the neo-Nazis in Kyiv, their Western patrons and other national traitors.”įoreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia was investigating whether Western intelligence services were involved in Prigozhin’s rebellion. ![]() “But it’s still too early to reach a definitive conclusion about where this is going.” “We’re going to keep assessing the fallout of this weekend’s events and the implications from Russia and Ukraine,” Biden said. “This was part of a struggle within the Russian system.”īiden and administration officials declined to give an immediate assessment of what the 22-hour uprising by the Wagner Group might mean for Russia’s war in Ukraine, for mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin or for Russia itself. We had nothing to do with it,” Biden said. “We made clear that we were not involved. ![]()
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