US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is poised to leave her post in the coming weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced. The senior official, widely regarded as a foreign policy hawk, played a key role in the Western-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014. In December 2013, she visited Kiev …
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The US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland told an audience in Kiev on Thursday that Washington has been helping plan the Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive’ against Russia for almost half a year. “Even as you plan for the counteroffensive, which we have been working on with you for …
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The US is to keep its planned sanctions against Russia completely secret, so Moscow doesn’t have the opportunity to mitigate them in advance, a senior American official said on Sunday. Speaking to CBS on Sunday, US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland explained that Washington was working on a set …
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Speaking to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland explored possible ways that Washington could punish Moscow for any military incursion. “What we are talking about would amount to essentially isolating Russia completely from the global financial system, with all the fallout that would entail …
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Nuland is expected to visit Moscow on Monday, where she will take part in three days of meetings with officials at the Russian Foreign Ministry. However, up until Sunday, Nuland was forbidden from entering Russia. “She was actually on our sanctions lists that mean that a person cannot cross the …
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It is necessary to start serious negotiations on the implementation of the Minsk agreements, and if this is not possible, the sanctions against the Russian Federation should gradually increase, said assistant Secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs in 2013-2017 years, Victoria Nuland. “I think we need to start …
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