By Reuters
KIEV - Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appointed a former UN ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko as next ambassador to the United States, the presidential decree showed on Thursday.
Volodymyr Yelchenko, Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations attends a meeting of the United Nations Security Council about the situation in Crimea at UN Headquarters in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, US, November 26, 2018. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/FILE PHOTO/MANILA BULLETIN)
The previous ambassador, Valeriy Chaly, was sacked this summer.