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The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States of America (Ukrainian: Надзвичайний і Повноважний посол України в Сполучені Штати Америки) is the ambassador of Ukraine to the United States.[1][2] The ambassador is responsible for diplomatically representing and promoting Ukraine's interests in the U.S., with Ukrainian ambassadors having full authority to act on behalf of the Ukrainian government.[1] Ambassadors are appointed and dismissed by the President of Ukraine, typically on the recommendation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.[3][1] If the position is left vacant without an ambassador appointed, a temporary Chargé d'Affaires (Ukrainian: Повірений у справах), typically the second highest ranking member of the embassy's diplomat staff, will fulfill the position's professional responsibilities until a replacement is appointed.

Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States
Посол України в США
since February 2021
NominatorPresident
Inaugural holderOleh Bilorus
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Formation3 January 1992; 32 years ago (1992-01-03)
WebsiteUkraine Embassy - Washington D.C.

The first diplomatic representation of Ukraine to the U.S. began in 1918, when the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR), a historical predecessor to modern-day Ukraine, declared its independence from the Russian Empire following the Bolshevik Revolution the previous year.[4][5] As part of the UPR government's efforts to gain international recognition of the country, a diplomatic mission headed by Ukrainian politician Yevhen Holitsynsky was sent to Washington, D.C. from 1918 to 1919, making him the first diplomat to represent an independent Ukrainian state in the U.S.[6][full citation needed] The UPR sent one additional diplomatic delegation from 1919 to 1921, led by Ukrainian politician and writer Yulian Bachynsky,[7] before the UPR government was sent in exile and the country's territory divided between the Second Polish Republic and the pro-Soviet Russian states of Soviet Belarus and Soviet Ukraine in the Treaty of Riga signed on 18 March 1921.[full citation needed] Due to the lack of formal U.S. recognition of the independence of the UPR during its existence, the UPR had no embassy in the U.S. (e.g. no permanent diplomatic mission) and thus, both Holitsynsky and Bachynsky served as envoys rather than ambassadors.

From 1921 to 1991, Ukraine was represented to the United States and the rest of the international community as part of the Soviet Union, although it gained de jure separate membership in the United Nations as the Ukrainian SSR at the UN's founding in 1945. During the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR adopted an act declaring the country's independence as modern-day Ukraine on 24 August. Following a national referendum in favor of independence and the country's signing of the Belovezha Accords formally dissolving the Soviet Union, the United States recognized Ukraine on 25 December 1991. After the U.S.' recognition and start of bilateral relations on 3 January 1992, Ukrainian diplomat Sergiy Kulyk served as the temporary Chargé d'Affaires of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission as it established itself in its embassy in Washington, D.C.[8] In April 1992, Ukrainian politician and professor Oleh Bilorus was appointed by President Leonid Kravchuk as the first ambassador to the U.S.[9][10] Since Bilorus left the position on 12 September 1994,[11] nine individuals have served as ambassadors of Ukraine to the U.S. while an additional two have briefly served as Chargé d'Affaires.[12] The longest serving ambassador is Oleksandr Motsyk, who represented Ukraine from June 2010 to April 2015,[13] while the shortest tenure as an ambassador is held by Anton Buteyko, who served from November 1998 to December 1999.[14] The incumbent ambassador is Oksana Markarova, who was appointed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 25 February 2021. Markarova is also the first woman to serve as ambassador to the U.S.[15]

List of ambassadors

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Ukrainian diplomatic representatives to the US
Name
(in Ukrainian)[a] 		Photo Title[b] Tenure Country[c] Refs
Yevhen Holitsynsky
(Євген Голіцинський) 		  Head of diplomatic mission 1918–1919 Ukrainian People's Republic [6]
Yulian Bachynsky
(Юліан Бачинський) 		  Head of diplomatic mission 1919–1921 Ukrainian People's Republic [7]
Sergiy Kulyk
(Сергій Кулик) 		  Chargé d'Affaires 3 January 1992[12]–6 March 1992[d] Ukraine [8]
Oleh Bilorus
(Олег Білорус) 		  Ambassador 6 March 1992???–12 September 1994[11] Ukraine [9]
Yuriy Shcherbak
(Юрій Щербак) 		  Ambassador 22 October 1994[16]–18 November 1998[17] Ukraine [18]
Anton Buteyko
(Антон Бутейко) 		  Ambassador 1998–1999 Ukraine [14]
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko
(Костянтин Грищенко) 		  Ambassador 28 January 2000[19]–2 September 2003[20] Ukraine [21]
Mykhailo Reznik
(Михайло Резнік) 		  Ambassador 10 November 2003[22]–21 June 2005[23] Ukraine [24]
Sergiy Korsunsky
(Сергій Корсунський) 		  Chargé d'Affaires 2005[e] Ukraine [26]
Oleh Shamshur
(Олег Шамшур) 		  Ambassador 19 December 2005[25]–12 May 2010[27] Ukraine [28]
Oleksandr Motsyk
(Олександр Моцик) 		  Ambassador 11 June 2010[29]–14 April 2015[30] Ukraine [13]
Yaroslav Brisiuck
(Ярослав Брисюк) 		  Chargé d'Affaires 2015[f] Ukraine [32]
Valeriy Chaly
(Валерій Чалий) 		  Ambassador 10 July 2015[31]–19 July 2019[33] Ukraine [34]
Volodymyr Yelchenko
(Володимир Єльченко) 		  Ambassador 18 December 2019[35]–25 February 2021[36] Ukraine [37]
Oksana Markarova
(Оксана Маркарова) 		  Ambassador 25 February 2021[2]–present Ukraine [15]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Ukrainian names link to the Ukrainian Wikipedia articles for each ambassador.
  2. ^ The full title for Ukrainian diplomats to the U.S. with the status of an ambassador is "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States of America" (Ukrainian: Надзвичайний і Повноважний посол України в Сполучені Штати Америки, romanized: Nadzvychainyi i Povnovazhnyi posol Ukrainy v Spolucheni Shtaty Ameryky).[2][1] This is shortened to simply "Ambassador" in the table.
  3. ^ The table includes the Ukrainian People's Republic, a historical predecessor of modern-day Ukraine.[5]
  4. ^ Kulyk served as Chargé d'Affaires in 1992 from the start of diplomatic relations on 3 January[12] until Oleh Bilorus' appointment as the first ambassador on 6 March 1992.
  5. ^ Chargé d'Affaires in 2005 from Mykhailo Reznik's dismissal on 21 June[23] to Oleh Shamshur's appointment on 19 December.[25]
  6. ^ Chargé d'Affaires in 2015 from Oleksandr Motsyk's dismissal on 14 April[30] to Valeriy Chaly's appointment on 10 July.[31]

References

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