Ukrainian Ambassador
Melnyk says goodbye to Germany
The outgoing Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy Melnyk will leave Germany this week. photo
© Christophe Gateau/dpa
Andriy Melnyk returns to Ukraine this week and says goodbye online. It is already clear which position he should take on in Ukraine. His successor has already been determined.
The Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Melnyk said goodbye to Germany via Twitter. “I return home with a clear conscience and a sense of having done my duty to Ukraine,” he wrote early Friday morning. “Thank you, dear German friends, for your patience.” Melnyk wants to leave Germany on Saturday. He is to take up a new post in the Foreign Ministry in Kyiv. His successor Oleksiy Makejev is expected in Berlin early next week.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed current ambassador Melnyk from his post in mid-July. Melnyk had not only made a name for himself with often harsh criticism of the federal government since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.