Bridget Brink will become the new US Ambassador to Ukraine

US President Joe Biden has nominated Bridget A. Brink as US Ambassador to Ukraine.

This was reported by the press service of the White House.

Before that, she served as Ambassador of the United States to Slovakia. She has also worked as a Senior Advisor and Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs of the United States Department of State, coordinating issues related to Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.

She has also been the Deputy Head of Mission at the US Embassies in Tashkent and Tbilisi and the Director of the Aegean and South Caucasus at the National Security Council. She also worked at the State Department as Deputy Director for Southern Europe.

• On May 6, 2019, it became known that the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Jovanovich finished her work. She urgently left for Washington for consultations. Jovanovic testified to Congress in the investigation into the possible impeachment of then-US President Donald Trump.
• Trump later nominated a new ambassador to Ukraine, 71-year-old General Keith Dayton, to Congress. But the process of appointing him dragged on until the US presidential election, which Trump lost. That is why the new US ambassador to Ukraine is already being elected by the Joe Biden administration.
• On February 2, 2022, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba confirmed that Ukraine had received a request from the United States to nominate a new ambassador.
• At a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Minister Lloyd Austin announced the return of US diplomats to Ukraine this week.