He arrives at the meeting in kyiv relaxed and without a tie, the mark of his new life, after two and a half years of negotiating night and day among diplomats and security officers. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Dmytro Kuleba, 43, has spent his time traveling the planet, from Washington to Berlin and from Paris to London, demanding weapons for his country, stealing Asia to Africa to try to rally the countries covered by Moscow. For the chancelleries, he is one of the faces of Ukraine at war. A popular minister, one of the best-known figures abroad after Volodymyr Zelensky, who “thanked” him, in September 2024.
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“You must not procrastinate”says Kuleba, Wednesday January 8. Loyal, he did not comment on this sidelining – war obliges. Nor did he tell anyone that he had declined Volodymyr Zelensky’s offer to become Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, as we learned The World. On the other hand, when the Frenchman Luis Vassy called him, in September 2024, to give him a course on “diplomacy in times of war” at Sciences Po Paris, he immediately accepted the proposal from the new director of the establishment, a relationship established when Mr. Vassy headed the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Séjourné.
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