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The head of the CIA, William Burns, has stated that the armed rebellion by the leader of the mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin was a challenge to the Russian state that highlighted the corrosive effect of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
" It is surprising that Prigozhin prefaced his actions with scathing accusations about the Kremlin's false justification for aggression in Ukraine and about the way the war was conducted by the Russian military leadership," Burns said during a speech at the Ditchley Foundation, an organization based in Oxfordshire, England that focuses on relations between the United States and Britain.
" These words and actions will have an impact for some time, a living reminder of the corrosive effect of Putin's war on society and his regime ," he said.
Mr Burns, who served as US ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008 and was appointed CIA director in 2021, described Prigozhin's rebellion as an "armed challenge to the Russian state".
He said the rebellion was an " internal Russian matter in which the United States has had and will have no role ."
Since the agreement was reached a week ago to end the rebellion, the Kremlin has sought to project calm.
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