State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce Says Ambassador To Ukraine Bridget Brink Is Stepping Down Early

4/11/2025

During Thursday’s State Department press briefing, Spokesperson Tammy Bruce answered questions about claims that the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine is leaving her position early.

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00:00right yes in the back there yeah thank you a couple questions just to be super clear

00:03well a little bit nadia please yeah just to be super clear did you just confirm

00:07the resignation of ambassador brink i'm sorry did you uh ambassador brings

00:12resignation did you just confirm that because you wish her well uh well she she is um she's

00:18returning home yes so that's that's official thanks so much uh for those of us who have been

00:23following you know this from the very beginning we couldn't help but notice that ambassador

00:27bring has been limited with naming russia you know recently particularly in the past couple of weeks

00:32when it comes to talking about russian attacks on ukraine was there any instruction and a pressure

00:37on her for not naming russia from this building well i'm not aware of anything like that certainly

00:43i wouldn't speak to anything regarding that regarding personnel regarding a diplomat and

00:48the internal dynamics that might occur so no that's not something i'm going to speculate about or guess

00:52out or speak to thank you my follow-up on ukraine as well tomorrow marks 30 days one month since

00:58ukraine you know uh did uh basically sign in your ceasefire deal and russia refused has been delaying

01:06since then and as we speak they keep attacking kiev right now may i get your perspective on that

01:11well the perspective i think everyone understands the perspective is that president trump is involved in

01:15this we've got the best diplomats in the world with uh certainly being led by secretary rubio

01:21uh all of our leadership but particularly president trump and secretary rubio in public

01:26have made it clear what's at stake uh when it comes to the nature of this situation ending

01:31uh it is a a dynamic that will not be solved militarily it is a meat grinder uh there is uh nothing

01:39else can be discussed for the outcome until the shooting and the the the killing stops uh secretary rubio made

01:46clear uh at nato in his press conference that we would in fact know in a matter of weeks if russia

01:53was serious and so we'll we'll take that him at his word certainly as we do uh and i think russia

02:00certainly needs to take that seriously and we'll play that out but this is not going to go on for six

02:04months or a year or anything else and uh the the president has also made it clear we want diplomacy

02:11uh but the fact is is that we're watching and judging as this process continues uh yes sir

02:26you

State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce Says Ambassador To Ukraine Bridget Brink Is Stepping Down Early

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