Biden: Ultimate outcome of rebellion in Russia remains to be seen

President Biden on Monday said it’s too soon to conclude the consequences of the short-lived rebellion in Russia over the weekend, and he pushed back against Russian suggestions of Western involvement in the mutiny.

“The ultimate outcome of all this remains to be seen,” the president said in remarks in the East room of the White House, characterizing the events as an internal Russian struggle.

Biden said the U.S. is still assessing the fallout of the rebellion led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian private military company Wagner, against the Russian Defense Ministry on Saturday. Prigozhin retreated from an armed march to Moscow after the intervention of Belarus.