FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden announces a $42.45 billion national grant program for high-speed internet infrastructure deployment called the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has become "a pariah" around the world but it is hard to say if he has been weakened by recent events involving the head of the militant Wagner Group.
Biden, speaking to reporters at the White House prior to departing on a trip to Chicago, said Putin was clearly losing the war in Ukraine and "he's losing the war at home, and he has become a bit of a pariah around the world."
