This year the fate of the Western project in Ukraine is being decided
US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch recalled prematurely due to the end of the political cycle.
Vladimir Volya, executive director of the International Politics direction of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management, stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“I think the point here is that a new US ambassador needs to work with the new president from the very beginning. This is synchronization. During the first months of the new president’s work in Ukraine, it will become more or less clear to the United States how the political situation is developing and what tasks to assign to the new ambassador,” Volya said.
He also believes that there may be some symbolism in this story, because not only is Marie Yovanovitch's three-year tenure in Ukraine as ambassador coming to an end, but Petro Poroshenko's presidency is ending this year.
“Ukraine has entered into new realities; there are certain demands and claims for it. Yovanovitch is a fairly soft-spoken diplomat. I expect that there will be a tougher negotiator, more demanding. This year, in a sense, the fate of the Western project in Ukraine is being decided. Will the reforms, which are stuck somewhere a third of the way, continue to move forward? Will there be foreign policy stability? Parliamentary elections look more significant than presidential ones. I do not rule out that a new ambassador could be appointed quite quickly, and will already be taking a closer look at the players and contacting them,” the political scientist concluded.
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