By AFP on May 13, 2021 President Joe Biden said Thursday that Vladimir Putin was not connected to a Russia-based criminal cyber attack on a huge US fuel pipeline but that he will raise the issue at an expected summit. Washington believes a criminal group based in Russia targeted the Colonial pipeline, which delivers gasoline through much of the south eastern United States, with ransomware. Asked if Putin or the Russian government were aware of the attack, Biden paused, then said: "I am confident that I read the report of the FBI accurately and they say they were not, he was not, the government was not."