#nuland #biden #russia #ukraine #usa #history #minsk #trump ">Is ground beneath Biden’s Russia policy shifting? - Indian Punchline In a surprise development, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland to retire from the foreign service (...) Nuland was very active regarding Minsk agreements and in early 2016 met several times with then Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov and discussed plans for the implementation of the political part of the agreements regarding the special status of Donbass within Ukraine. However, once Donald Trump came to power in January 2017, the momentum was lost.. (...) Nuland also noted that she did not know any other way to get Russia to withdraw from Ukraine other than the Minsk document, which after all, President Putin himself signed. However, as it happened, Biden’s Russia policies took an entirely different trajectory....