The comments came after an unexpected political crisis in Russia that threatened the stability of Vladimir Putin’s regime.
Members of the Wagner Group military company sit atop of a tank Saturday on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. | AP PhotoPresident Joe Biden on Monday addressed the ongoing political crisis in Russia, rejecting the notion that the U.S. and Western allies were responsible for the aborted rebellion led by mercenaries in Russia over the weekend.
The comments came after an unexpected political crisis in Russia that threatened the stability of Vladimir Putin’s regime, and caught American officials, and others around the world, off guard. On Friday, Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, formerly a close confidant of Putin, accused the Russian military of attacking Wagner troops with missile strikes. Prigozhin and his forces occupied the city of Rostov-on-Don, near the Ukrainian border, and began moving toward Moscow.
Prigozhin broke his silence Monday. “We stopped when it became clear that a lot of blood would flow,” he said in an audio statement posted on his Telegram channel. “The demonstration of what we could do was sufficient. Our decision to return was driven by two factors. One, that we did not want Russian blood to flow. The second factor was that we went to demonstrate our protest, and not to overthrow the government of the country.
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