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Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday dismissed the country’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Vadym Prystaiko, after he criticised the president’s response to a row over British military aid.
Prystaiko had criticised Zelensky’s sarcastic response to suggestions from British defence minister Ben Wallace that Ukraine should show more gratitude for arms supplies from its allies.
Zelensky signed a decree dismissing Prystaiko, which was published on the presidential website.
The row began when Wallace told journalists at a NATO summit in Vilnius this month that Britain was not an Amazon delivery service for weapons to Ukraine and suggested Kyiv could express more gratitude.
Zelensky responded at a press conference at the summit, saying he did not know how else to make clear Ukraine’s gratitude, adding that they could wake up in the morning and express their words of gratitude to the minister personally.
The Ukrainian diplomat Prystaiko agreed with a suggestion from a Sky News interviewer that Zelensky responded with a little bit of sarcasm to Wallace which was not healthy. He said that they don’t have to show the Russians that they have something between then and they have to know that they are working together.
Prystaiko is a career diplomat who has served as ambassador to the United Kingdom since July 2020. He was previously Ukraine’s foreign minister from 2019 to 2020.
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