By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
KYIV/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – A former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine has revealed that she resigned last month because President Donald J. Trump had pressured “victim Ukraine” rather than “aggressor Russia” to end their war.
Ambassador Bridget Brink, who served as ambassador to Ukraine from May 2022 until her departure in April, explained the reasons for her departure for the first time over the weekend while fighting continued between Ukrainian and Russian forces.
In remarks by the Detroit Free Press newspaper, Brink condemned Trump’s attitude toward Ukraine’s leadership.
“I respect the president’s right and responsibility to determine U.S. foreign policy-with proper checks and balances by the U.S. Congress,” she said.
“Unfortunately, the policy since the beginning of the Trump administration has been to put pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia,” Brink added.
Brink, a long-serving career diplomat, said that she therefore felt it was her duty to step down. “Peace at any price is not peace at all — it is appeasement,” she noticed.
Brink publ icly supported Ukraine under the administration of Trump’s pro-Kyiv predecessor, Joe Biden.
After Trump assumed office in January 2025, promising to end the war in Ukraine quickly, Brink’s public statements became far more neutral.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly criticised her in April for what he called a weak reaction to a Russian missile strike on the city of Kryvyi Rih that killed 11 adults and nine children.
An eyewitness in Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy’s home city, told Worthy News that she “often could not sleep at night” due to ongoing attacks.
Several days later, a State Department spokesperson announced that Brink was stepping down as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
It came while the Trump administration exerted increasing pressure on Kyiv,including briefly halting military assistance and intelligence sharing following Trump’s public quarrel with Zelenskyy during a disastrous meeting in the Oval Office.
Brink wrote Friday that it had grown evident she could not carry out her duties “in good faith.”
Brink was nominated to the post by former President Joe Biden and arrived in Kyiv in May 2022.
At the time of her resignation, a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said Brink had “been the ambassador there for three years—that’s a long time in a war zone.”
The State Department’s chief spokeswoman, Tammy Bruce, added: “We wish her well.”
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