President Biden on Monday nominated Bridget Brink, who has been the U.S. ambassador to Slovakia since 2019, to be America's new ambassador to Ukraine, The New York Times reports.
According ot her official bio, Brink has worked for the State Department since 1996, holds degrees from Kenyon College and the London School of Economics, and "speaks Russian and Serbian, as well as basic Georgian and French."
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