Three years later, the US ambassador will be in Kyiv again

Joe Biden The President of the United States on Monday Bridget Brink On Monday, the White House announced the appointment of the US ambassador to Bratislava as the new US ambassador to Kyiv.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Lloyd Austin The Defense Minister announced during a visit to Kyiv last weekend that the United States is gradually renewing its presence in Ukraine and providing additional military aid.

According to an earlier decision of the US State Department, diplomatic and administrative staff of the US Embassy in Kyiv were evacuated two weeks before the start of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

Bridget Brink, career diplomat at the US Department of State, appointed July 1, 2019. Donald Trump During his presidency he became ambassador to Bratislava.

Prior to that, he was Deputy Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2015 to 2018, appointed by then-US President Barack Obama during his second cabinet. John Kerry City police.

Bridget Brink was a diplomat in Tashkent from 2014 to 2015.

Brink’s appointment has not been approved by the US Senate, which could take weeks or even months.

The post of US ambassador to Kyiv has been vacant since 2019, when then-President Donald Trump fired the head of the foreign mission. Even before the Russian attack, the embassy itself moved to Kyiv from Lviv and then settled in Poland. The foreign mission does not even return to the Ukrainian capital yet.

According to the American radio NPR, American diplomats are gradually returning to Ukraine; They will spend a day in Lviv first and then in other Ukrainian cities, and finally the embassy will return to Kyiv in the long run.