Statement of Ambassador Bridget A Brink Nominee to be U S Ambassador to Ukraine Senate Foreign Relations Committee May 10 2022 Thank you Chairman Menendez Ranking Member Risch and distinguished members...Ambassador to Ukraine I am grateful for the trust and confidence the President and Secretary Blinken have placed in me If confirmed I commit to...
our shared security interests especially in light of Russia s brutal and unprovoked war against Ukraine As the only country that is a member of NATO the EU and the Arctic Council Denmark partners with...
and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its inter 8 nationally recognized borders and call for an imme 9 diate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian forces 10 from Ukraine 11 8 recognizes the value...
2015 and 2017 This advocacy as well as his opposition to the Russian Federation s illegal war in Ukraine are likely the primary reasons for his current wrongful imprisonment Furthermore one of the pending...
and implement policy that increases the costs to Russia for their continued occupa tion Crimea is Ukraine I would also focus on securing releases for political pris oners and documenting human rights abuses...
opening statement Senators Murphy Portman and I had a chance to stop in Lithuania on our trip to Ukraine and Georgia last week and meet with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and I can tell you how impressed I think...would also note Senator I know Ukraine was also a stop on your trip There has been an awful lot of economic flight to Ukraine A lot of...
to trade with one another As the war in Ukraine illustrates our failure to use military deterrence had consequences Russia did not believe that we would arm Ukraine because we had not done so in the past...that takes into account the real possibility that autocracies will use military force The war in Ukraine has been launched because we did not do...
truly unique to the American promise That story finds its roots in small villages in Belarus and Ukraine My father s family first made their way to Brooklyn New York with little to their name My mother...
born in Warsaw He lived his first ten years in Przemysl now located on the border of Poland and Ukraine By luck my grandfather was assigned to be Consul General in Montreal just before Nazi Germany invaded...If confirmed I will work with Poland to support the government and people of a peaceful and whole Ukraine as well as the aspirations of the...
itself at the center of many of the world s current con flicts including Syria Nagorno Karabakh Ukraine and Libya Over the past ten years public sparring matches between U S and Russian officials have...