The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine has dismissed suggestions that Washington would cease supporting Ukraine, following Donald Trump’s win in the U.S. presidential election, Ukrainian news site Ukrainska Pravda reports.
Trump has spoken highly of Russian President Vladimir Putin and famously claimed that Putin is “not going into Ukraine,” two years after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and start of hostilities with Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine.
U.S. Ambassador Mary Jovanovich was quick to play down any mounting concerns that a Trump administration meant the U.S. would scale back support for Ukraine’s government, at an embassy event in Kiev on Wednesday morning.
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Source: Newsweek
