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Wess Mitchell, the Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, will visit Ukraine at the end of a 10-day trip to Europe that starts this week, the State Department said in a November 5 statement, according to RFE/RL.
The official will meet with senior Ukrainian officials at the end of his European tour, on November 14-16, RFE/RL reports.
The assistant secretary of state will "reaffirm the United States’ commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and encourage Ukraine to continue implementing critical reforms," the statement said.
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Mitchell's visit will come after the Ukrainian presidential office on November 4 said President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson discussed in a phone call the possibility of sending UN peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine,