Rep. Victoria Spartz, the first Ukrainian-born member of Congress, is urging the State Department to send its diplomats back to Ukraine
Spartz, an Indiana Republican, sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, saying that the US should consider redeploying US diplomats to Lviv in Western Ukraine to provide better coordination with the Ukrainian government. Spartz pointed to the actions of the European Union, which returned its diplomatic corps to Kyiv.
One Democratic lawmaker who supports re-establishing a diplomatic presence in Ukraine said there have been questions from the region about why the Americans aren't there as other countries have gone back in.Another Democrat, however, said the State Department has good reason to be cautious about moving Americans back onto Ukraine soil. While Russia has refocused its war efforts into the east and southern regions of the country, Russia's air power can still strike Kyiv and Lviv.
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