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'F**k the EU': US State Dept. top official caught in alleged phone chat on Ukraine ― RT News

"F**k the EU," Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Victoria Nuland allegedly said in a recent phone call with US ambassador to Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt, as the two were discussing a deal to end the crisis in Ukraine.

The US State Department did not deny the authenticity of the video and stressed that Nuland had apologized for the "reported comments."

The conversation is mainly focused on Ukraine’s government and President Viktor Yanukovich's offer last month to make opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk the new prime minister and Vitaly Klitschko deputy prime minister.


“I don’t think that Klitschko should go into the government. I don’t think it is necessary. I don’t think it is a good idea,” a female voice - allegedly Nuland - said.


“In terms of him not going into the government, just let him stay out and do his political homework,” a male voice - believed to be Pyatt - replied. “In terms of the process moving ahead, we want to keep the moderate democrats together,” he said.


As Nuland sees it, Ukrainian opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk should be in charge of the new government and Klitschko would not get along with him. “It’s just not going to work,” she said.


Nuland added that she has also been told that UN chief Ban Ki-moon is about to appoint the former Dutch ambassador to Kiev, Robert Serry, as his representative to Ukraine.


"That would be great I think to help glue this thing and have the UN glue it and you know, f**k the EU," she said in apparent reference to their differences over policies.


"We've got to do something to make it stick together, because you can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude the Russians will be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it," Pyatt replied.


US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki declined to comment on the tape’s contents, but did not deny its authenticity.


"I did not say it was not authentic," she said, adding that Nuland had apologized to her EU counterparts for the reported comments.

Meanwhile, White House spokesman Jay Carney alleged that the fact that it had been "tweeted out by the Russian government, it says something about Russia's role.”


In the conversation, it sounds like the two officials are playing a game of chess; strategizing on how to put together the government of another country, RT’s Marina Portnaya said while commenting on the report.


Foreign policy expert Nebojsa Malic told RT that even though Nuland apologized for the reported comments, she did not admit her fault in trying to overthrow the government in Ukraine.


“What she hasn’t apologized for is the plans to midwife a new government in Ukraine. In other words, she is apologizing for cussing up the EU, but she is not apologizing for trying to overthrow the government in Kiev, calling it popular democracy,” Malic said. “I don’t think anybody in the US establishment is sorry for what they are trying to do. I think they are very proud of it and they are going to pursue it.”

The leaked chat fuels earlier allegations that Washington is heavily meddling in the Ukrainian political crisis by manipulating the pro-EU opposition and helping it in its efforts to oust President Viktor Yanukovich.

Back in December, Victoria Nuland was spotted in the cradle of the anti-government protests - Kiev’s landmark Independence Square - distributing cookies to demonstrators. Later in the month, Senator John McCain arrived in Kiev to show his support for the opposition. Addressing protesters on Independence Square, he stated that Ukraine's future was with Europe, adding that the country would “make Europe better.”

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Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU | Reuters
「EUのくそったれ」、米高官の通話が動画サイトに漏えい | Reuters

米国のヌランド国務次官補(欧州・ユーラシア担当)とパイアット駐ウクライナ米大使が電話で交わした会話が、何者かによって動画サイト「ユーチューブ」に掲載されたことが分かった。


この会話は4日に公開され、ヌランド氏はその中で、ボクサーから転身したウクライナ野党指導者のクリチコ氏がヤヌコビッチ大統領退陣後の新政権に参画すべきではないと指摘。また、ウクライナ問題へのEUの対応を「くそったれ」と批判した。

ヌランド氏とヤヌコビッチ氏は6日に会談し、反政府デモの収拾策を協議した。

国務省のサキ報道官は、公開された会話について「本物ではないとは言わなかった」とし、ヌランド氏がEU側に謝罪したと明かした。また、ホワイトハウスのカーニー報道官は、会話に最初に言及したロシア政府が今回の暴露に関与している可能性があるとの見方を示した。

Moscow accuses U.S. of fomenting Ukraine coup; recordings leaked | Reuters

An east-west struggle over Ukraine turned nastier as Moscow accused the United States of fomenting a coup and Washington pointed a finger at Russia for leaking a recording of U.S. diplomats discussing how to shape a new government in Kiev.

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