INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
charge d'affaires for Ukraine Kristina Kvien and her team returned to Kyiv Sunday, the embassy tweeted, in a step toward re-establishing
Slava Ukraini!" tweeted the U.S
continent, a senior State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.Earlier this week Kvien said the U.S
hopes to return its diplomats to the Ukrainian capital "by the end of the month."US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has also championed a
on Sunday informed his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, about the Kyiv visit by Kvien and her team
Blinken said they would "conduct diplomatic engagement in advance of the planned resumption of Embassy Kyiv operations," according to a
State Department read-out.The U.S
closed its embassy in Kyiv on February 14 -- 10 days before Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine -- and moved
gradually moving to reinstate a diplomatic presence in Kyiv, where Ukrainian forces have rebuffed a Russian offensive.Blinken told Kuleba
that the team's return is "a testament to Ukraine's success, Moscow's failure, and our effective and enduring partnership with the
government and people of a sovereign, democratic, and free Ukraine," the State Department official said.
