This is reported by the agency Bloomberg.

As noted, this step is connected with the reorganization of the State Department. In this regard, the department will be transferred to the Bureau of Economic and Business Relations. In addition, his head will no longer directly report to the Secretary of State of the United States.

It is also expected that now staff will be reduced and costs will be reduced.

According to the vice-president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies James Lewis, the State Department's economic bureau has no experience in dealing with these issues. He also believes that this is a fundamental misunderstanding.

Recall, as reported by "URA-Iform," the Secretary-General of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the North Atlantic alliance will help the Ukrainian country to strengthen cyber defense against the backdrop of a massive hacker attack on June 27, 2017.