President Joe Biden on Monday said a brief uprising by Russian mercenaries against the Kremlin was part of a struggle within the Russian system and that the United States and its allies were not involved in it. | Reuters
At a White House event, Biden addressed the dramatic power struggle that erupted when the mutineers barreled toward Moscow only to stop before reaching the capital.
Russian intelligence services were investigating whether Western spy agencies played a role in the aborted mutiny, the TASS news agency quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Monday. The Biden administration would not address a widely held perception in Washington that the uprising showed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been weakened by his 16-month war against Ukraine.
Biden said he spoke with key allies on a video conference to make sure everyone was on the same page and coordinated in their response.“They agreed with me that we had to make sure that we gave Putin no excuse – gave Putin no excuse – to blame this on the West and blame this on NATO,” he said.
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