The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has assured that The West was not involved in the Wagner Group rebellion, paramilitary company hired by Russia for the war in Ukraine and which this weekend has threatened to destroy the Russian military leadership.
In statements to the press, the president has assured that was informed “hour by hour” of events in Russia and that he even called a telematic meeting of the main partners. “We made it clear that we were not involved. We had nothing to do with it,” he said. “youWe have to make sure we don’t give Putin any excuses to blame this on NATO,” he said.
“This has been part of an internal struggle of the Russian system. We will continue to assess the consequences of the events of this weekend and the implications for Russia and Ukraine, but it is still too early to make a definitive conclusion on where this is going,” Biden added.
Previously, the spokesman for the White House National Security Council, Adam Hodge, has asserted that The United States “was not involved and will not be involved in this situation” which, as Biden later remarked, is an “internal matter” of the Russian military authorities.
The statements by Biden and the National Security Council come after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrovalluded to possible Ukrainian and even Western involvement in the Wagner Group’s attempt to deal a heavy blow to the Russian military leadership.
Lavrov has pointed out that his Ministry does not have the capacity to promote investigations in this sense, although he has stated that other government entities are probably now trying to determine whether the military rebellion of the Wagner Group could have been promoted from abroad.
The rebellion of the Wagner Group, led by the head of the organization, Yevgeni Prigozhin, It began late on Friday with the seizure of the Russian city of Rostov, headquarters of the Army’s southern command, with the intention of heading towards Moscow to ask the Ministry of Defense for explanations for allegedly killing its men in a bombardment.
In full throttle with the Kremlin and a few hundred kilometers from Moscowthe convoy turned around on Saturday afternoon thanks to the mediation of the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, in an agreement to stop the revolt, amnesty the mercenaries and send Prigozhin into exile in Belarus.
