2023-06-24 22:11:03
Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State.
By AGENCIES Date: 06/24/2023
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke in a phone call on Saturday with the G7 and European Union (EU) foreign ministers to discuss “the current situation in Russia” after Russia’s declaration of armed rebellion. Wagner’s mercenaries against Moscow and reiterate US support for Ukraine.
“Secretary Blinken spoke today with the Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to discuss the current situation in Russia,” he noted. in a statement the spokesman for the Department of State of the United States Matthew Miller.
In this conversation, Secretary Blinken “reiterated that the United States’ support for Ukraine will not change.”
“The United States will remain in close coordination with Allies and partners as the situation continues to develop,” the statement said.
The State Department’s reaction follows the declaration of rebellion by the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, who last night claimed to have the General Staff of the Russian forces in the city of Rostov, in southern Russia, under control.
Russian President Vladimir Putin described the uprising started last night by Prigozhin as “treason” and assured, in a message to the nation on public television, that those responsible “will pay for it.”
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