MOSCOW: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday that US President Joe Biden’s comments on the reports that Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin had died in a plane crash were unacceptable, the TASS news agency reported.

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Biden on Wednesday said he was not surprised by the reports, adding that not much happens in the country that President Vladimir Putin is not behind.