June 26, 2023
LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) – Britain is prepared for a range of scenarios in Russia, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday, noting the potentially destabilising impact of the tensions between the Wagner Group and President Vladimir Putin.
Putin faced an unprecedented challenge to his authority over the weekend from an abortive mutiny by heavily armed mercenary fighters from the Wagner Group.
The extraordinary events left governments, both friendly and hostile to Russia, groping for answers to what could happen next in the country with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.
Sunak said Britain was monitoring events carefully.
“It’s too early to predict with certainty what the consequences of this might be, but of course we are prepared as we always would be for a range of scenarios,” Sunak told reporters.
“It’s a situation that we’ve been analysing and monitoring for some time because we’re aware of the potentially destabilising impact of Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine and indeed, the tensions between the Wagner Group and the Putin regime.”
I always welcome a potentially destabilising scenario in mafia land.
I notice Biden come out quickly and said it had nothing to do with us or NATO. Why did he have to say anything at all?
It’s like when he said ‘God save the Queen’. He’s on bad dope again, like Trump and Giuliani. 🙂
It was before his first ice cream of the day, foccusser. He’s always very incoherent before that.