Ukraine has no ambassadors in 30 countries - MFA

As of Monday, April 8, 2024, the position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary remains vacant in 30 Ukrainian embassies. This was stated by Vitaliy Moshkivsky, Head of the Personnel Management Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in response to an information request from Espreso.

The list includes both embassies where the likely future head is already known (such as the UK) and embassies where appointments are unlikely to take place in the near future (Belarus) or where an embassy has just appeared (Ghana).

In total, the list includes the following countries:

1. Algeria
2. Angola
3. Belgium
4. Belarus
5. Bosnia and Herzegovina
6. Botswana
7. United Kingdom
8. Armenia
9. Ghana
10. Greece
11. Georgia
12. Ethiopia
13. Iraq
14. Iran
15. Kazakhstan
16. Congo
17. Côte d'Ivoire
18. Lebanon
19. Mauritania
20. Malaysia
21. Mozambique
22. Norway
23. Oman
24. Rwanda
25. Sudan
26. Thailand
27. Tanzania
28. Hungary
29. Philippines
30. Czech Republic.

• On February 20, Ukraine announced that it was ready to consider the resumption of outbound consular services in the Transnistrian region of Moldova, which is currently part of the unrecognized Transnistria.