 UPS President Joe Biden on Monday, June 26, said a brief uprising by Russian mercenaries against the Kremlin is part of a struggle within the Russian system and the United States and its allies were not involved in it. �We made clear we were not involved. We had nothing to do with this,� Biden said in his first comments on the uprising by Wagner mercenaries that fizzled over the weekend. At a White House event, Biden addressed the dramatic power struggle that erupted over the weekend when the mutineers barreled toward Moscow only to stop before reaching the capital. Biden said he had directed his national security team to update him on the situation hour by hour and to prepare for a range of scenarios, which he did not detail. Russian intelligence services are investigating whether Western spy agencies played a role in the aborted mutiny, the TASS news agency quoted Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying on Monday, �I told him that no matter what happened in Russia, we the United States should continue to support Ukraine�s defense and its sovereignty and its territorial integrity. He and I agreed to follow up and stay in constant contact. �I�m also in constant contact with our allies to maintain our coordination. I�ll be speaking with the head of state right after this meeting today and making sure we�re on the same page. I didn�t get a chance to speak with one head of state yesterday. We�re going to keep assessing the fallout of this weekend�s events and the implications for Russia and Ukraine, but it�s still too early to reach a definitive conclusion about where this is going. The ultimate outcome of all this remains to be seen, but no matter what comes next, I will keep making sure that our allies and our partners are closely aligned in how we are reading and responding to the situation. It�s important we stay completely coordinated.