Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare public appearance before a crowd, as Western leaders said the Wagner Group rebellion had weakened him. Follow our live coverage of the war.
Putin has become an international pariah, President Biden told reporters
on Wednesday, adding that dozens of other countries had joined NATO and the European Union in uniting against . “He’s losing the war at home,” Biden added. But in a verbal slip-up, he mistakenly referred to the war in Iraq instead of Ukraine.. The move is aimed at boosting government coffers by approximately $3.5 billion as Moscow struggles to finance its invasion while keeping its heavily sanctioned economy afloat.A top Russian general, Sergei Surovikin, had advance knowledge of Wagner Group chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s mutinous plan, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
to despots and strongmen. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow had “absolutely nothing to do with” those efforts, even though Putin admitted this week that Wagner was “fully state funded.”
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