The Pentagon is not commenting on the whereabouts of Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin after a short-lived mutiny that Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder called an 'internal Russian matter.'
and State Department say, we view the security situation in Russia as an internal Russian matter," Ryder said.
Ryder declined to comment on whether the mutiny will impact Russian President Putin’s grip on power. He denied that the timing of the latest military aid package to Ukraine had any relation to the mutiny. Ryder would neither confirm nor deny that the Pentagon was aware of the current status of Prigozhin who, much to the dismay of Western analysts and the world, struck a deal with Putin to halt the uprising and move to Belarus.
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