Top U.S. diplomat Victoria Nuland apologizes for ‘F*** EU’ remark.

Top U.S. diplomat Victoria Nuland apologizes for ‘F*** EU’ remark.(AA).

Washington’s new top diplomat for Europe, Victoria Nuland, apologized on Thursday to her EU counterparts shortly after she was caught saying “F*** the EU” about the European response to the crisis in Ukraine in a bugged phone call which was uploaded on Youtube.

While not denying that the conversation took place, U.S. officials pointed the finger at Russia for allegedly bugging the diplomats’ phones.

“Let me convey that she has been in contact with her EU counterparts, and of course has apologized,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland had made the comments during a private conversation with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt in Kiev as she was planning a deal to end the Ukraine crisis.

The two U.S. diplomats were discussing a plan to form a unity government that will accommodate both members of the current government led by Viktor Yanukovich and the opposition, which is led in part by former boxer Vitali Klitschko.

Nuland told Ambassador Pyatt that she had been discussing the plan with U.N. Undersecretary for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, also a previous top U.S. diplomat, and that he would appoint a U.N. envoy to help push the plan forward.

“That would be great to help glue this thing and to have the U.N. help glue it,” she said. “And you know, f*** the EU.”

Ambassador Pyatt replied: “No, exactly, I think we’ve gotta 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.Read the full story here.