{"id":405237,"date":"2019-05-07T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/marie-yovanovitch-leaving-us-ambassador-ukraine-position\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T08:30:09","slug":"marie-yovanovitch-leaving-us-ambassador-ukraine-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/marie-yovanovitch-leaving-us-ambassador-ukraine-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Yovanovitch Leaving US Ambassador to Ukraine Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41278 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/picture-5-e1557226776529.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo RadioFreeEurope\/RadioLiberty<\/h5>\n<p>The United States ambassador to Ukraine is departing her position this month, two months ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Four people familiar with the decision told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/u-s-ambassador-to-ukraine-openly-criticized-by-top-ukrainian-prosecutor-departing-early\/29924924.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RadioFreeEurope\/RadioLiberty<\/a> on Monday that Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was leaving by the middle of May. They gave no indication exactly why she was departing.<\/p>\n<p>Sections of an e-mail shared with RFE\/RL said that Yovanovitch&#8217;s last day would be May 20 and that a charge d&#8217;affaires &#8211; basically an embassy&#8217;s chief operating officer &#8211; would be appointed long-term until a new ambassador is nominated and confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The four people, who include embassy employees and others, spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement e-mailed to RFE\/RL later on Monday, a State Department spokesperson said that Yovanovitch &#8220;is concluding her 3-year diplomatic assignment in Kyiv in 2019 as planned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her confirmed departure date in May aligns with the presidential transition in Ukraine,&#8221; which elected a new president last month, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team at U.S. Embassy Kyiv, and in Washington, continues to work closely with the Ukrainian government and civil society to strengthen our partnership,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>The statement did not provide further details.<\/p>\n<p>Sworn in as ambassador to Kyiv in August 2016, Yovanovitch has been at the forefront of U.S. efforts to help stabilize Ukraine&#8217;s shaky economy and push reforms to root out endemic corruption.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s also been at the forefront of U.S. backing for Ukraine in its ongoing fight with Moscow over Russia-backed fighters battling Ukrainian government forces in eastern regions since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Yovanovitch drew attention in early March when,weeks before Ukraine\u2019s March 31 presidential election, she called on Kyiv to fire the country&#8217;s special anti-corruption prosecutor.\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/u-s-envoy-urges-ukraine-to-sack-top-anticorruption-official-seriously-tackle-graft\/29807081.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The speech was notable<\/a>\u00a0not only for its timing but also its bluntness.<\/p>\n<p>President Petro Poroshenko, who has been accused of not doing enough to tackle corruption, lost his reelection bid in an April 21 runoff vote against comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyi.<\/p>\n<p>Yovanovitch was also the target of an explosive claim in March by Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko, who alleged she had given him &#8220;a list of people whom we should not prosecute&#8221; during their first in-person meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The claim, made in an interview by Washington-based newspaper The Hill,\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/us-rejects-top-ukrainian-prosecutors-dont-prosecute-accusation\/29834853.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompted an unusual rebuke\u00a0<\/a>by the State Department. &#8220;The allegations by the Ukrainian prosecutor-general are not true and are intended to tarnish the reputation of Ambassador Yovanovitch,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Lutsenko&#8217;s claim got further attention later when a tweet about the story was retweeted by President Donald Trump&#8217;s son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo RadioFreeEurope\/RadioLiberty The United States ambassador to Ukraine is departing her position &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":405238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36415],"tags":[36961],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-405237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","tag-russian-aggression"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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