The State Department said that the scandalous conversation between US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine took place a long time ago. The department also suggested where Nuland could have learned strong words and said that only some countries have the espionage potential to intercept diplomatic calls.
Let us recall that the scandal erupted after a recording of Nuland’s telephone conversation with the US Ambassador to Kyiv Geoffrey Pyatt appeared on the Internet. Offended by the indecision of the leaders of the European Union in the fight against Moscow’s “dark designs” in Ukraine, the current US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland during this conversation took the EU to task. The US did not formally recognize the authenticity of the recording, but Nuland apologized to her colleagues from the EU.
On the evening of Friday, February 7, State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki told reporters that the telephone conversation in which US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland used obscene language when discussing the situation in Ukraine with the American Ambassador in Kyiv Geoffrey Pyatt took place quite a long time ago, Interfax reported. .
“This topic was discussed many days ago in the context of the question of who will join the government and who will not,” she said.
The State Department even explained who taught Nuland strong words. Of course the Russians. And not just Russians, but sailors. It turns out that when Nuland was 23 years old, she worked for some time on a Russian merchant ship. “You may know the story of how Nuland, at the age of 23, worked on a Russian merchant ship for eight months and learned to perfectly use certain vocabulary in several languages,” Psaki said. However, journalists regarded this statement by the State Department representative as a joke.
In addition, Jen Psaki told the press which powers could be behind the wiretapping of these negotiations. In her opinion, only a few countries have the technical capabilities that were necessary to intercept a telephone conversation. However, she did not unequivocally blame the Russian special services for the incident.
“We do not have clear confirmation. We are only saying that Russian officials were the first to pay attention to the recording. Only a few countries have this level of capability.”
At the same time, the State Department representative avoided answering the question whether the Ukrainian special services could have intercepted the conversation.