Biden: "Too Early To Say Where Russia Situation Is Going"

US President Joe Biden has given his first public remarks on the insurrection by Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group.

• Biden says he directed his national security team to "monitor closely and report" to him "hour by hour," and prepare for a "range of scenarios."
• Biden says he agreed with allies to "give Putin no excuse to blame this on the West or NATO."
• Biden: "We made clear we were not involved. We had nothing to do with it. This was part of a struggle within the Russian system."
• Biden says he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that "no matter what happened in Russia," the US would continue to support Ukraine.
• Biden says "it is still to early to reach a definitive conclusion about where this is going. The ultimate outcome of all this remains to be seen."
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CBS yesterday that the insurrection "...was a direct challenge to Putin’s authority... We do know that Putin has a lot more to answer for in the weeks and months ahead.”
• For more see the MNI Political Risk team's analysis of events: LINK