MOSCOW, March 5. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland is stepping down due to the failure of US President’s Joe Biden’s anti-Russian policies.

She was commenting after Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that Nuland will leave her post in coming weeks.

"They won't tell you the reason. But it is simple: the failure of the anti-Russian policies of the Biden administration. Russophobia, which was proposed by Victoria Nuland as the main US foreign policy concept, is making the Democrats sink like a stone. Well, with them already being at the bottom, it’s not letting them go up," Zakharova wrote.

To go along with the message, the diplomat posted a photo of Nuland holding a candle during a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Odessa in 2014.

"By the way, remembering candles in Orthodox churches, if there is a sudden desire to go to a monastery to pray for forgiveness of sins, we will put in a good word," the spokeswoman said.