President Vladimir Zelensky did not ask the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Olga Stefanishina to resign - he wants her to stay, as the diplomat herself spoke about during a press conference in Washington, Suspilne reports.. She considers suspicions regarding her dismissal to be a completely normal process, saying that everyone who is in the immediate circle of the head of state “sooner or later becomes the object of suspicion on many issues”.

“Even before I arrived here as ambassador, I prepared a plan,” she explained. “We worked on it, and essentially we are where we wanted to be.”.

She added that, if necessary, she is ready to return to Ukraine and “present her arguments” on any of the questions that will be asked of her.

" This is not related to my official position, what I used while in that position, or anything related to it. But at the same time, the discussion continues,” the diplomat added..

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Let us remind you that against the backdrop of personnel changes in the Cabinet of Ministers and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which Zelensky began in mid-July, the media reported that Stefanishina asked him to end his diplomatic service, explaining this decision by personal circumstances. Although the president was pleased with her work. Subsequently, journalist Yuriy Nikolov warned that she could be declared suspicious in the case of possible abuse of official position by ARMA officials: the agency transferred the House of Trade Unions in the center of Kyiv to the management of a private company with connections to her ex-husband Mikhail Stefanishin. After the publication of the corresponding journalistic investigation, which served as the basis for initiating the SAP case, the Verkhovna Rada even initiated her removal from her position at that time. Stefanishina herself stated that the history of her former marriage has nothing to do with life and work now.

As soon as it became known that suspicion was being prepared for the ambassador, Bankova came up with the idea of \u200b\u200bsending former Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko to the United States instead of her.. And although she, despite the positive perception of her personality by the West, is against diplomatic work, on July 17 the FT wrote that the president continues to convince Sviridenko to agree to a potentially vacant position.