Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland has resigned from the Biden administration.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Nuland’s resignation, stating, “Victoria Nuland has let me know that she intends to step down in the coming weeks as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs – a role in which she has personified President Biden’s commitment to put diplomacy back at the center of our foreign policy and revitalize America’s global leadership at a crucial time for our nation and the world.”
Nuland served for three and a half decades under six presidents.
“Starting with her very first posting as a consular officer in Guangzhou, China, Toria’s had most of the jobs in this Department,” Blinken wrote. “Political officer and economic officer. Spokesperson and chief of staff. Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Secretary. Special Envoy and Ambassador.”
“Over the past three years, Toria has led this Department on everything from addressing complex crises in the Sahel, Haiti, and the Middle East, to broadening and strengthening America’s alliances and partnerships across Europe and the Indo-Pacific,” Blinken added. “But it’s Toria’s leadership on Ukraine that diplomats and students of foreign policy will study for years to come. Her efforts have been indispensable to confronting Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, marshaling a global coalition to ensure his strategic failure, and helping Ukraine work toward the day when it will be able to stand strongly on its own feet – democratically, economically, and militarily.”
Nuland previously told CNN that the billions of taxpayer dollars sent to Ukraine “is going right back into the U.S. economy to make those weapons…”
Despite Nuland’s claim, a Pentagon report revealed that millions of dollars of Ukraine aid remains unaccounted for.
“Although ODC-Ukraine and Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel conducted some required inventories, as of June 2, 2023, serial number inventories for more than $1.005 billion of the total $1.699 billion (59 percent of the total value) of EEUM-designated defense articles remained delinquent,” the report says. “Additionally, the DoD did not maintain an accurate inventory of Ukrainian EEUM-designated defense articles in the Security Cooperation Information Portal–End-Use Monitoring (SCIP-EUM) database.”
“It was beyond the scope of our evaluation of the DoD’s efforts to comply with the monitoring requirements for EEUM-designated defense items provided to Ukraine to determine whether there has been any diversion of such assistance in Ukraine,” the report added in a footnote.
Two years ago, Nuland said that Ukraine had facilities for conducting biological research.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a Sputnik News radio station on Wednesday that these facilities are being run by the United States government, according to TASS.
Nuland “confirmed the existence of not just the laboratories in question but, as they actually call it, research,” said Zakharova.
