US President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he was "not surprised" at news that Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, may have died in a plane crash in Russia.
"I don't know for a fact what happened, but I'm not surprised," Biden said.
"There's not much that happens in Russia that Putin is not behind," Biden told reporters after taking an exercise class with his family near Lake Tahoe.
"But I don't know enough to know the answer" of what may have happened to the powerful former Putin henchman, he said.
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