President Joe Biden on Monday emphasized that the United States and its closest allies were not involved in the rebellion by the Wagner Group against the Russian government, his first public comments since the weekend mutiny.
"They agreed with me that to make sure we gave Putin no excuse ... to blame this on the West or to blame this on NATO," Biden said of his conversations over the weekend with allies. "We made clear we were not involved. We had nothing to do with it. This is part of a struggle within the Russian system."
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