President Joe Biden (left) spoke on the Wagner Group’s rebellion against Russia for the first time on Monday (Pictures: Rex/Reuters)
The US and its allies had ‘nothing’ to do with the Wagner rebellion against Russia, President Joe Biden said in his first remarks since the march on Moscow.
Biden on Monday addressed the Wagner Group’s attempted coup over the weekend in which it seized a major Russian city and briefly advanced on Moscow.
Speaking from the White House, Biden said he ‘convened our key allies on a Zoom call to make sure we’re all on the same page… They agreed with me that we had to make sure we gave Putin no excuse – let me emphasize, we gave Putin no excuse – to blame this on the West or to blame this on NATO’.
‘We made clear that we were not involved. We had nothing to do with it,’ continued Biden. ‘This was part of a struggle within the Russian system.’
President Joe Biden said the US and allies gave Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘no excuse’ to blame the uprising on the west or NATO.