The announcement came after US officials visited Ukraine and announced more aid and plans to reopen the US embassy in Kyiv.
US President Joe Biden appointed Bridget Brink as ambassador to Ukraine after next visit country ravaged by war of the Secretary of State of the United States and the head of the Pentagon.
Brink, who currently serves as ambassador to Slovakia, is a diplomat by profession.
She has served as senior advisor and deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the US State Department, where she focuses on Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, as well as deputy chief of mission in Tashkent , Uzbekistan and Tbilisi, Georgia.
Monday’s official announcement of Brink’s nomination came after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made the announcement. undisclosed trip traveled to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to whom he announced his nomination plan.
Washington did not give a timeline for when the US embassy in Kyiv, which was closed days before Russia’s February 24 invasion, would reopen.
Blinken and Austin also announced an additional $300 million in military funding for Ukraine and $165 million in ammunition. Up to now, the US has Send Ukraine $3.7 billion since the invasion began.
There has been no Ukraine ambassador since former President Donald Trump removed Marie Yovanovitch from office in 2019.
Yovanovitch’s firing is at the heart of the House impeachment inquiry into allegations that Trump and his allies sought to dig up damaging information about Biden’s son Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine.
Brink, who is from Michigan and speaks Russian, will need confirmation by the US Senate.
Speaking to the New York Times, William Taylor, a retired diplomat who briefly served as head of the US Embassy in Ukraine after Yovanovitch was removed, said he looked forward to expect Brink to get bipartisan support in her endorsement.
“It would be nice to have an ambassador confirmed by the Senate who clearly has the authority to speak to the president,” he said.
