MADRID, 31 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The new United States ambassador to Ukraine arrived in kyiv on Monday, marking the first time in three years that the North American country has an ambassador in the country.
Bridget Brink has announced on her Twitter account that she is already at the US Embassy in kyiv, where she has assured that she feels “honored” to join the team “while she is with Ukraine”.
The last person to serve as US ambassador to Ukraine was Marie Yovanovitch, whom then-US President Donald Trump ousted in 2019, The Hill newspaper reported.
The US Senate confirmed Brink as US ambassador to Ukraine in a unanimous vote. US President Joe Biden nominated her for the post in April. She is a career foreign service officer who has spent much of her career focused on Europe and Eurasia, most recently serving as ambassador to Slovakia.
The United States suspended operations at its embassy in kyiv in February, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Operations had initially moved from kyiv to Lviv, located in the west of the country, before moving to Poland.
Earlier this month, US diplomats began arriving in kyiv as the United States prepared to resume Embassy operations in the Ukrainian capital.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, announced last week that plans to deploy US forces to Ukraine to protect the US Embassy in kyiv are “on track at a relatively low level.”