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{{Quotebox|'''Pyatt''': “We want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing. The other issue is some kind of outreach to Yanukovych but we probably regroup on that tomorrow as we see how things start to fall into place.”<br><br>'''Nuland''': “So on that piece Geoff, when I wrote the note [[Jake Sullivan|[Biden’s national security adviser Jake] Sullivan’s]] come back to me VFR [direct to me], saying you need [[Biden]] and I said probably tomorrow for an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] to stick. So Biden’s willing.”<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957</ref>}}
{{Quotebox|'''Pyatt''': “We want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing. The other issue is some kind of outreach to Yanukovych but we probably regroup on that tomorrow as we see how things start to fall into place.”<br><br>'''Nuland''': “So on that piece Geoff, when I wrote the note [[Jake Sullivan|[Biden’s national security adviser Jake] Sullivan’s]] come back to me VFR [direct to me], saying you need [[Biden]] and I said probably tomorrow for an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] to stick. So Biden’s willing.”<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957</ref>}}
[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|left|300px|thumb|[[Oleh Tyahnybok]] (left) Victoria Nuland (center) Arseniy Yatsenyuk (right) Vitali Klitschko (rear).]]
[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|left|300px|thumb|[[Oleh Tyahnybok]] (left) Victoria Nuland (center) Arseniy Yatsenyuk (right) Vitali Klitschko (rear).]]
Nuland and Pyatt met with Ukrainian opposition leaders Tyahnybok, Klitschko and Yatsenyuk along with then-president Yanukovych just days later on Feb. 7, 2014. Events moved swiftly. On Feb. 22, 2014, Yanukovych was removed as President of Ukraine and fled to Russia. On Feb. 27 2014, Yatsenyuk, the candidate favored by Nuland, was installed as Prime Minister. Tyahnybok and his [[Svoboda]] party were brought into the new government, Klitschko was left out. Svoboda is considered a [[fascist]] organization.
Nuland and Pyatt met with Ukrainian opposition leaders Tyahnybok, Klitschko and Yatsenyuk along with then-president Yanukovych just days later on Feb. 7, 2014. Events moved swiftly. On Feb. 22, 2014, Yanukovych was removed as President of Ukraine and fled to Russia. On Feb. 27 2014, Yatsenyuk, the candidate favored by Nuland, was installed as Prime Minister. Tyahnybok and his [[Svoboda]] party were brought into the new government, Klitschko was left out. Svoboda is considered a [[fascist]] organization. Reflecting on this episode in his 2018 book ''Republic in Peril'', the international relations scholar David Hendrickson writes:
{{quotebox-float|"The renewal of the cold war with Russia in Europe was the most lamentable, and perhaps even most inexplicable, blunder of the Obama presidency. Victoria Nuland marched into Kiev with as much ''élan'' as any [[neoconservative]] could muster, successfully encouraging the February revolution, but the grim and predictable result was a stark deterioration of U.S.-Russian relations and the breakdown of the post-Cold War peace."<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/11/deep-state-veteran-victoria-nulands-answer-on-alleged-bioweapon-labs-in-ukraine-is-cause-for-concern/</ref>}}
A fw months later on April 18, 2014, Hunter Biden was appointed to the Board of Directors for Burisma–one of the largest natural gas companies in Ukraine. Four days later, on April 22, 2014, Vice President Biden traveled to Ukraine, offering his political support and $50 million in aid for Yatsenyuk's shaky new government. Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire politician, was elected as president of Ukraine on May 25, 2014. Joe Biden became close to both men and helped Ukraine to obtain a four-year $17.5 billion IMF package in March 2015.
A few months later on April 18, 2014, Hunter Biden was appointed to the Board of Directors for Burisma–one of the largest natural gas companies in Ukraine. Four days later, on April 22, 2014, Vice President Biden traveled to Ukraine, offering his political support and $50 million in aid for Yatsenyuk's shaky new government. Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire politician, was elected as president of Ukraine on May 25, 2014. Joe Biden became close to both men and helped Ukraine to obtain a four-year $17.5 billion IMF package in March 2015.
Sometime in the later half of 2014 [[Christopher Steele]] of Orbis International began providing informal reports to the State Department on the Ukraine. ''[[CBS News]]'' reported “During the Ukraine crisis in 2014 and ‘15, Chris Steele had a number of commercial clients who were asking him for reports on what was going on in Russia, what was going on in Ukraine, what was going on between them,” said Victoria Nuland, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/victoria-nuland-says-obama-state-dept-informed-fbi-of-reporting-from-steele-dossier/</ref>
Sometime in the later half of 2014 [[Christopher Steele]] of Orbis International began providing informal reports to the State Department on the Ukraine. ''[[CBS News]]'' reported “During the Ukraine crisis in 2014 and ‘15, Chris Steele had a number of commercial clients who were asking him for reports on what was going on in Russia, what was going on in Ukraine, what was going on between them,” said Victoria Nuland, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/victoria-nuland-says-obama-state-dept-informed-fbi-of-reporting-from-steele-dossier/</ref>