President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed diplomat Mykhailo Brodovych as ambassador to Georgia, a position that had been vacant since 2022. This is stated in Decree No. 83 of January 26, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
"To appoint Mykhailo Brodovych as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Georgia," the document says.
68-year-old Brodovych was ambassador to Slovenia in 2015-2022.
He graduated from the Ivano-Frankivsk State Pedagogical Institute (foreign languages) in 1979 and from the Ivan Franko State University of Lviv (Law Faculty) in 1999, and is fluent in English, German and Polish.
Since 1996, Brodovych has been working as a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 1998-2002, he was a Consul of the Consulate General of Ukraine in Istanbul, in 2005-2010 - of the Consulate General of Ukraine in Krakow.
In 2010-2015, he was Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, specializing in consular and legal and protocol aspects of diplomatic work.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, in March 2022, Zelenskyy recalled Ukraine's ambassador to Georgia for obstacles to volunteers, who wanted to help Ukraine, and the lack of sanctions against russia, in June 2022, Zelenskyy dismissed Ihor Dolhov, who had held the post of ambassador to Georgia since February 2017.
In July 2023, Ukraine expelled the Ambassador of Georgia Giorgi Zakarashvili due to the Georgian authorities' abuse of the imprisoned former President of Georgia, a citizen of Ukraine Mikheil Saakashvili.
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