AFP: US to press Ukraine to end crisis after Russia bailout warning

Published Feb. 6, 2014 at 11:09 am

Victoria Nuland, a career diplomat whose previous posts include U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels, was nominated as under secretary for political affairs, the Biden transition said in a statement on Jan. 16, 2021.

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The United States on Feb. 6 was to press Ukraine to end its two-month crisis after Russia warned its economically struggling neighbour that it risked losing a $15 billion bailout deal from Moscow.

US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was due to arrive in
Kiev for a two-day visit for talks with Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovych and the opposition.

Her visit comes a day after one by
EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton, who said in Kiev that the
government was not doing enough to overcome the ex-Soviet country’s
worst crisis since independence in 1991.