important. it s not lost on anyone for us to send a message that we are there in person, that we support ukraine. and to mark the really historic victory that the ukrainians achieved in defending you. and the fact that kyiv still stands, much against the wishes and the names of the russian military. the current u.s. ambassador, i believe, slovakia s been nominated to the post in ukraine, if i m not mistaken. i m a crazy, or is it weird that it s taking this long to nominate an ambassador? it certainly does take time, sometimes longer than we would expect to go through the validation process to get an ambassador. but we ve had a career official in place who s had the right conversations, and significant high representation to the ukrainian government, and don t forget, president biden talks directly to president zelenskyy all the time. secretary blinken talks to his counterparts, and there s been no shortage of conversations between the ukrainian and the u.s. governments are bracing
and to mark the really historic victory that the ukrainians achieved in defending you. and the fact that kyiv still stands, much against the wishes and the names of the russian military. the current u.s. ambassador, i believe, slovakia s been nominated to the post in ukraine, if i m not mistaken. i m a crazy, or is it weird that it s taking this long to nominate an ambassador? it certainly does take time, sometimes longer than we would expect to go through the validation process to get an ambassador. but we ve had a career official in place who s had the right conversations, and significant high representation to the ukrainian government, and don t forget, president biden talks directly to president zelenskyy all the time. secretary blinken talks to his counterparts, and there s been no shortage of conversations between the ukrainian and the u.s. governments are bracing or levels. one of the announcements over the past few weeks is $700