American diplomats have congratulated Volodymyr Yelchenko on his appointment as Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States.
That's according to a statement of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, posted on Twitter.
"We congratulate Volodymyr Yelchenko on his appointment by President Zelenskyy to become Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States," the statement says.
We congratulate Volodymyr Yelchenko on his appointment by President Zelenskyy to become Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States. #USUkrainePartnership
— U.S. Embassy Kyiv (@USEmbassyKyiv) December 20, 2019
As UNIAN reported earlier, on December 19, President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Volodymyr Yelchenko Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States.
Prior to this, Yelchenko held the positions of Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations in New York and Ambassador of Ukraine in Jamaica (concurrently).
Yelchenko will replace Valeriy Chaly at the embassy's top post in Washington.
On July 19, Zelensky dismissed Chaly from the post of Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States.
