Top White House Officials React to Wagner Mercenary Uprising

In an interview Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told ABC News that “16 months ago, Russian forces were on the doorstep of Kyiv, Ukraine, thinking they were going to take the city in a matter of days,” adding that “now they have to be focused on defending Moscow, Russia’s capital, against mercenaries” that were initially backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“We see cracks emerging,” he said. “Where they go, if anywhere, when they get there, very hard to say. I don’t want to speculate on it.”