Nuland considers bloody "letters" sent to Ukrainian embassies suggest Russian tactics

Victoria Nuland, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, believes that the threatening packages addressed to Ukrainian diplomatic missions recently are part of the logic of Russia's actions, but she has no concrete evidence of Russian involvement. 

She stated this at a meeting with journalists in Kyiv, European Pravda reports.

Nuland condemned the incidents of parcels containing blood and animal eyes sent to the diplomatic missions of Ukraine in a number of countries.

She noted that Ukraine was the subject of a complex attack by the Russian Federation, and at the same time these parcels are also an attack on Ukraine. "This is terrible, and it is directed against Ukraine. There is a whole set. It is a ‘matrix’ of terrible things that are now directed against Ukraine, and we know where they come from", the US State Department representative said. 

At the same time, she emphasised that she had no evidence that the sender was definitely Russia. "I do not have any specific information regarding these parcels," the diplomat emphasised. 

Background: Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs, reported that Ukrainian diplomats in 12 countries received 18 threats over recent days, and insisted that those behind these acts would not be able to achieve their goals.

On Friday, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine reported that after the letter bombs sent in Spain, blood-stained packages were sent to embassies in Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia, Italy, Consulates General in Naples and Kraków, as well as the Consulate in Brno. There were animal eyes in the packages, and the packages themselves were soaked in a red liquid and smelled of blood.

Later, it became known that the embassy of Ukraine in Madrid, where a "letter bomb" had been sent on Wednesday, also received a package with traces of blood. 

Read more about the events in Spain in the article: Explosion in Embassy That Should Change Spain's Policy on Weapon Supply to Ukraine.

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