The Parliament called for the replacement of Ukraine's ambassador to the United States after the suspension of arms supplies

Sofia Fedina, a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the European Solidarity party, called for the appointment of a new ambassador to the United States instead of Oksana Markarova in the hope of improving relations with Washington. She stated this on July 3 on the air of the Novosti TV channel.Live».

"The ambassador has almost no contacts with the [US] administration, relations there are very complicated, so I think it would be critically necessary to replace the ambassador now," said Fedina.

According to her, when the American administration changes, the head of the diplomatic mission often changes so that he is acceptable to the new government, but Kiev did not do this.

The MP added that Valery Chaly, who already held this post from 2015 to 2019 during the first term of the American leader Donald Trump, could be appointed ambassador to the United States.

The United States has suspended arms supplies to Ukraine. What does it mean

Yesterday, The Washington Post reported that Ukrainian officials were at a loss after the unexpected decision of the United States to suspend the supply of ammunition for air defense systems to Kiev.

Later that day, Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Roman Kostenko said that the suspension of arms supplies to Kiev from Washington was like an "attack" on Ukraine. In addition, Kostenko called on Europe to help Ukraine more, as some of the US weapons can be replaced.