US Senate approves Biden's nomination for ambassador to Ukraine

The US Senate approved the candidacy of US Ambassador to Slovakia Bridget Brink for the post of HEAD of the diplomatic mission in Ukraine. The meeting was broadcast by the C-SPAN TV channel.

“We have just confirmed Bridget E. Brink <...> as ambassador to Ukraine,” announced Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, noting that the decision was unanimous.

Earlier, the US Embassy in Kyiv resumed work after a three-month break. Washington decided to temporarily move the embassy in Ukraine from Kyiv to Lvov on February 14, ten days before the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. However, on February 22 it became known that the embassy had moved to Poland. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken explained that he made such a decision "for the safety of employees" of the diplomatic mission.

US President Joe Biden submitted Brink's nomination to the Senate on April 26. A day earlier, he announced that Brink, who currently serves as ambassador to Slovakia, will be the new US ambassador to Ukraine. The fact that the President of the United States chose a candidate for this post was reported by CNN on February 1, citing sources in Washington and Kiev.

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The position of the US Ambassador to Ukraine has been vacant since May 2019. The previous head of the diplomatic mission, Marie Yovanovitch, was recalled to Washington, then Donald Trump was the President of the United States .

The Wall Street Journal wrote that, according to Trump's lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, she prevented him from "persuading" the Kyiv authorities to launch an investigation against Burisma, which employed Joe Biden's son Hunter. After that, the United States in Ukraine was represented by Chargé d'Affaires Christina Quinn.

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Prior to her appointment as Ambassador to Slovakia in July 2019, Brink worked at the National Security Council and at the U.S. embassies in Serbia, Uzbekistan, and Georgia. The fact that Biden is considering her appointment to Ukraine was written by Foreign Policy in December last year.

Bridget Brink has been a diplomat for 25 years and holds an MA in International Relations and Political Theory from the London School of Economics. She knows Russian, studied Slovak, Serbian, Georgian and French. In the State Department, as well as the National Security Council, she dealt with Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the post-Soviet space, worked at the US embassies in Uzbekistan and Georgia.

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