State Department: It's A New Thing To See Putin Directly Challenged

US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller has told reporters that the situation in Russia remains a "dynamic situation," but its "certainly a new thing to see President Putin's leadership directly challenged."

• Miller: "its a new thing to see [Wagner Group Director] Evgeniy Prigozhin directly questioning the rationale for this war and calling out that the war has been conducted essentially based on a lie which is something that we have said previously but is something we haven't seen coming from Russian officials recently."
• Miller says that the US Ambassador to Russia, Lynne Tracey, conveyed to Russia that the US sees the mutiny as, "an internal Russian affair in which the US is not involved and will not be involved."
• Miller says he "doesn't have any assessment" about Prigozhin's location.