Former US ambassador to Ukraine tells why she resigned

Former US ambassador to Ukraine Brigitte Brink has for the first time openly stated that the reason for her leaving her post was deep disagreements with the foreign policy course of the Donald Trump administration. She wrote about this in her author's column for the Detroit Free Press.

According to Brink, American diplomats are obliged to implement the foreign policy defined by the president. However, as the former diplomat notes, after Trump came to power, the White House's priorities shifted: "instead of putting pressure on the aggressor country - Russia - the administration put pressure on the victim, which is Ukraine."

I could no longer honestly represent this policy and felt it was my moral obligation to resign. After thirty years of service to the United States, I resigned as Ambassador to Ukraine," Brink explained.

She stressed that she could not stand idly by while "the country was invaded and children were being killed with impunity". Although she has worked in hot spots during her career, Brink says the scale of violence in Ukraine "is unparalleled in Europe since World War II."

The America I served and love is a country that does not turn its back on friends, is not indifferent to tragedy, and does not indulge an aggressor," she added.

The Financial Times also previously reported that Brink had left her post amid growing pressure from key figures in Trump's inner circle.

Brigitte Brink is an American diplomat from Michigan who served as US ambassador to Ukraine from June 2022. She began her career at the State Department in 1996, working on US policy in Europe and representing the country in Turkey, Greece, the Caucasus and Slovakia.

Shortly before her resignation, Brink found herself at the centre of a scandal following the Russian strike on Krivoy Rog. on 4 April, she expressed outrage at a missile hitting near a playground without indicating that Russia had carried out the strike. This drew sharp criticism, including from President Zelensky. Two days later, she named Russia as responsible for the shelling and later visited Kryvyi Rih to honour the memory of the victims, including nine children.