When the new U.S. ambassador to Ukraine arrives in-country, she’ll be stepping into the role at perhaps the most crucial moment in its modern history. Bridget Brink faces a tough job ahead, but at least it looks an easy road to Senate confirmation.
When the new U.S. ambassador to Ukraine arrives in-country, she’ll be stepping into the role at perhaps the most crucial moment in its modern history.
This official undated portrait provided by the U.S. Department of State shows Ambassador Bridget Brink. | U.S. Department of State via AP “They’ll then start the process of looking at how we actually reopen the embassy itself in Kyiv. I think that will take place over a couple of weeks would be my expectation,” Blinken said, suggesting U.S. diplomats may only go as far as western Ukraine for now. “We’re doing it deliberately, we’re doing it carefully, we’re doing it with the security of our personnel foremost in mind, but we’re doing it.
“We’ve got to get leadership over there,” Sen. Thom Tillis , who was in the region last week, told POLITICO. “These confirmed positions are very, very important. Can’t overstate the value when you’re out abroad.” Yovanovitch served as ambassador in wartime Ukraine, but during her tenure Russia’s military operation was lower in intensity, limited in scale and confined to the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions. After all-out fighting from spring 2014 through winter 2015, the war turned to one of attrition, with troops mostly lobbing small shells at each other from a maze of World War I-style bunkers and trenches.
The day after Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Brink visited Slovakia’s border, whereshe witnessed “the heartbreaking scene of Ukrainian women and children” fleeing the Russian attack. A foreign official who has worked with Brink and spoke to POLITICO on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic issues described her as “committed and diligent” and “a what-are-we-doing-today-to-save-the-world kind of person.”
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