 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. Putin initially vowed to crush the mutiny led by Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigazin, comparing it to the wartime turmoil that ushered in the revolution of 1917 and then a civil war, but hours later a deal was clinched to allow Prigazin and some of his fighters to go to Belarus.