US President Joe Biden this Wednesday described his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as a “pariah” who is “clearly losing” the war in Ukraine, though he says it’s too early to know if he was weakened by the aborted insurgency of the Wagner group. .
Asked by reporters at the White House if Putin was now weakened, Biden replied: “It’s hard to say, but he’s clearly losing the war” in Ukraine, which Russia invaded 16 months ago, on February 24, 2022.
“It has become a pariah all over the world: and it’s not just in NATO, it’s not just in the European Union, it’s also in Japan”claimed the president of the United States, trying to give an idea of the extent of dissatisfaction with Putin.
The White House remains cautious in its comments on the fallout from the failed armed uprising led by the leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgueni Prigozhin, in Russia last weekend.
On Friday night, his men captured the Russian city of Rostov, the headquarters of the Russian army’s southern command, with the intention of marching to Moscow to demand an explanation from the Defense Ministry for allegedly killing fighters of the group at a bombardment.
In full battle with the Kremlin and two hundred kilometers from Moscow, the paramilitary column turned on Saturday afternoon, thanks to the mediation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, in an agreement to end the armed uprising, amnesty for mercenaries and send Prigozhin into exile in Belarus.
Source: DN
