The statement below was disseminated by the Atlantic Council on May 26.
Over the past three decades, the United States and Ukraine have developed a broad and robust relationship that serves the interests of both countries, countries that share values such as democracy, liberty and human freedom. Ukraine’s success in developing as an independent, stable, democratic state with a strong market economy, anchored to European institutions, advances the U.S. interest in a more stable and secure Europe.
The bilateral relationship has long enjoyed wide bipartisan support in the United States, including in Congress and from both Republican and Democratic presidents alike. It has also enjoyed support from a broad political spectrum in Ukraine.
We have worked over the years to build and strengthen the U.S.-Ukrainian strategic partnership established in 1996. We thus are disheartened by efforts to inject Ukraine into America’s domestic politics as the 2020 U.S. presidential election approaches. Those efforts advance a false and toxic narrative, one with no basis in the reality of U.S.-Ukraine relations, in order to weaken the relationship between the United States and Ukraine and sow division within our two countries. That serves neither country’s interests. We strongly condemn these efforts to divide our two countries and call on officials in both to avoid steps that will only erode the bilateral relationship and alienate our countries from one another.
Ambassador (Ret.) Roman Popadiuk
1st U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Ambassador (Ret.) Steven Pifer
3rd U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Ambassador (Ret.) Carlos Pascual
4th U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Ambassador (Ret.) John Herbst
5th U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Ambassador (Ret.) William Taylor
6th U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Ambassador (Ret.) John Tefft
7th U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Ambassador (Ret.) Marie Yovanovitch
9th U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine