President Joe Biden named Bridget Brink as his nominee for ambassador to Ukraine on Monday. She's a career foreign service officer who has spent decades working in the shadow of
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President Joe Biden named Bridget Brink as his nominee for ambassador to Ukraine on Monday. She's a career foreign service officer who has spent decades working in the shadow of
Brink has served as the U.S. ambassador to Slovakia since 2019. She has more than two decades of experience in the Foreign Service, including stints in Georgia and Uzbekistan.
President Biden nominated Bridget Brink, the current U.S. ambassador to Slovakia, as ambassador to Ukraine. The position has been empty for more than a year.
The U.S. hasn't had a permanent ambassador to Ukraine since Marie Yovanovitch was forced out by President Donald Trump in 2019, and Biden was slow to name his own nominee.
President Biden on Monday nominated a career diplomat, Bridget A. Brink, to serve as ambassador to Ukraine, moving to fill a critical post amid Russia’s invasion.
