MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland\u2019s resignation is related to the failure of Washington\u2019s policy against Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier in the day, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Nuland plans to step down<\/a> in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “They will not tell you the reason. But it is simple \u2014 the failure of the anti-Russian policy of [US President Joe]\u00a0Biden\u2019s administration<\/a>. Russophobia, proposed by Victoria Nuland as the main foreign policy concept of the United States, is dragging the Democrats to the bottom like a stone<\/em>,” Zakharova told a briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVictoria Nuland has let me know that she intends to step down in the coming weeks as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs,\u201d US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a press statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nuland\u2019s tenure<\/a>\u00a0at the position lasted three and a half decades, when she served under six presidents and ten secretaries of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n