then you and then change topics. one thing you mentioned is, sorry, you said the united states will continue sorry, the united states will continue to impose costs on wagner or its successor. is there any indication right now that wagner is actually standing up a successor organization? i think i said or successor if any. we have noted the announcements by the ministry of defense that wagner forces are supposed to be absorbed into the ministry of defense. we don t have any assessment of what will happen to the wagner group, either in ukraine or elsewhere and the world, but whether it s wagner or whether it s a successor or any other organization that conducts the activities that wagner has conducted to destabilize those we will hold them accountable. i don t have any assessments at this time. there are media reports that the biden administration had intelligence about the mutiny, whatever you call it, since mid june. is that correct, and also if that s true, why didn
Across into ukraine, but we are not in position to verify or vol date those sports so it s unclear. and undisputed that wagner played a role in the fight for bakhmut, they were reinforced by russian military forces and that had a major factor on the ability to take that town. as i have said many, many times, wagner s approach was to throw bodies at the fight, ill equipped, ill trained, and body after body, and they suffered tens of thousands of calories for bakhmut, did not have any strategic in belarus, senator warner
That any american citizens considering travel to russia should not do so and any american citizens in russia should depart immediately. anything else on this topic or sayid. and another media report that state department treasury decided to postpone announcing new sanctions against wagner following the mutiny. we never comment on the timing of sanctions actions. generally we time the sanctions actions we take for maximum impact and maximum effect and we will continue as i said a moment ago to hold wagner or any other organization that conducts destabilizing activities that wagner has done across the world, we will hold any such organization accountable. i promised him the first nonrussian question. russians are responding in realtime to the outreach the president ordered.
Reclaim its territory. i m going you you don t have to, sayid, the floor is yours. you said this demonstrates the need i how does this not demonstrate the need how quickly the war can get out of hand. war is certainly dangerous, why we think russia should end the war immediately. go ahead. thank you, thank you, matt. i m going to switch, i m tempted to ask about russia. you are not pigeon holed. over the past few days, many attacks by settlers on villages and towns. i m going to ask you about one of them sandra: so the update from the state department when asked multiple times about the wagner group leader s whereabouts, prigozhin, the state department says they do not know his exact location. some of the headlines, the state
National criminal organization, we have sanctioned them, and they sow chaos and violence, it s too soon to know where wagner goes as an entity or where mr. prigozhin goes. do you know where prigozhin is? i don t. ukraine is complaining that russia could blow up zap we have the ability near the plant to monitor radioactivity and we just have not steen any indication that that threat is imminent, but watching closely. as secretary blinken said it s exposed cracks in putin s power. how concerned are you that putin could be more desperate, more