NEWSWATCH: “Pyatt: High hopes, some regrets, one big question” – Kyiv Post/Brian Bonner

Pyatt is part a big turnover … coming in the Western diplomatic corps, as ambassadors who served during the EuroMaidan Revolution and the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine are being reassigned ….
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It was in support of Ukrainians’ fight against their corrupt authorities that Pyatt took one of his stronger and more memorable stands. …
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Despite the solid U.S-Ukraine alliance, Ukrainians still note with displeasure several aspects …. Obama is set to become the first sitting U.S. president not to visit Ukraine since … Reagan was in office.

Another complaint … the U.S. should be doing more to support the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, when Ukraine surrendered its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from the United States, Britain and Russia – which is now the enemy to most Ukrainians. … other complaints range from America’s slow response to Russia’s Crimean invasion … and, while far from universal, growing criticism that the structure of Western aid programs only serves to prop up the corrupt status quo. ….

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