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Formation
  
May 11, 1992

Website
  
U.S. Embassy - Kyiv

United States Ambassador to Ukraine

Nominator
  
The President of the United States

Inaugural holder
  
Roman Popadiuk as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

The history of Ambassadors of the United States to Ukraine began in 1992.

Until 1991 the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic had been a constituent SSR of the Soviet Union. Upon the breakup of the USSR, the parliament of Ukraine declared the nation’s independence on August 24, 1991. On December 1, 1991, the people of Ukraine voted to approve the declaration by a wide margin.

The United States recognized Ukraine on December 26, 1991 and the U.S. embassy in Kiev was established January 23, 1992, with Jon Gundersen as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim. The first ambassador was commissioned in May 1992.

The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine is located in Kiev.

Ambassadors

  • Name: Roman Popadiuk (Ukrainian: Роман Попадюк) – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 11, 1992
  • Presented credentials: June 4, 1992
  • Terminated mission: Left post July 30, 1993
  • Name: William Green Miller – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 16, 1993
  • Presented credentials: October 21, 1993
  • Terminated mission: Left post January 6, 1998
  • Name: Steven Pifer – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: November 10, 1997
  • Presented credentials: Unknown
  • Terminated mission: Left post October 9, 2000
  • Name: Carlos Pascual – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 15, 2000
  • Presented credentials: October 22, 2000
  • Terminated mission: Left post May 1, 2003
  • Name: John E. Herbst – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 1, 2003
  • Presented credentials: September 20, 2003
  • Terminated mission: May 26, 2006
  • Name: William B. Taylor, Jr. – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 30, 2006
  • Presented credentials: June 21, 2006
  • Terminated mission: May 2009
  • Name: John F. Tefft – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: November 20, 2009
  • Presented credentials: December 7, 2009
  • Terminated mission: July 30, 2013
  • Name: Geoffrey R. Pyatt – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 30, 2013
  • Presented credentials: August 15, 2013
  • Terminated mission: August 18, 2016
  • Name: Marie L. Yovanovitch
  • Nominated: May 18, 2016
  • Presented credentials: August 18, 2016
  • Terminated mission: Incumbent

    • References

    United States Ambassador to Ukraine Wikipedia
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