State Department: With respect to the activities over the weekend; obviously they were a significant step. It is certainly a new thing to see President Putin's leadership directly challenged. It is a new thing to see Yevgeny Prigozkin directly questioning the rationale for this war, and calling out that the war has been conducted, essentially based on a lie, which is something we have said previously, but we certainly have not seen coming from Russian officials previously.

[Prigozhin is not a Russian official; the war is not based on a lie]