The UK is prepared for various scenarios in Russia, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday, following the attempted coup by the Wagner Group.

As Reuters reports, Sunak stated that Britain was monitoring events in Russia carefully, where President Vladimir Putin faced an unprecedented challenge to his authority over the weekend from an abortive mutiny.

"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," added the head of the British government.

According to The Times, the UK government, the UK should prepare for the scenario of an unexpected collapse of the Russian Federation so that such events do not take London by surprise.

President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda, stated that the attempted coup by the "Wagner Group" indicates that similar or even greater disturbances can be expected in Russia in the future.