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Kyiv — Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Julie Davis volition permission her station successful June, U.S. officials person confirmed to CBS News.
U.S. officials told CBS News that Davis, who has held the station successful Kyiv for astir a year, during a play of abrupt shifts successful American argumentation connected Ukraine, is resigning for nonrecreational reasons alternatively than implicit immoderate disagreements with President Trump.
The Financial Times archetypal reported her imminent departure, saying it came successful effect to "differences" she had with Mr. Trump.
"It is mendacious to suggest Ambassador Davis is resigning 'over differences with Donald Trump,'" State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott told CBS News connected Tuesday. "She is retiring aft a distinguished 30-year tenure arsenic a vocation overseas work officer. She volition proceed to proudly beforehand President Trump's policies until she officially departs Kyiv successful June 2026 and retires from the Department."
A elder U.S. authoritative adjacent to Davis told CBS News that she decided to resign arsenic she did not spot a way guardant successful the State Department accordant with her nonrecreational ambitions, and that reports of disagreements with Mr. Trump were "inaccurate."
Davis assumed her relation arsenic interim chargé d'affaires astatine the U.S. Embassy successful Kyiv connected May 5, 2025, pursuing the resignation of erstwhile U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink. Brink, a Democrat present moving for Congress successful Michigan's 7th District, wrote successful an op-ed aft stepping down that she "could nary longer successful bully religion transportation retired the administration's argumentation and felt it was my work to measurement down."
While serving arsenic chargé d'affaires successful Kyiv, Davis remained accredited arsenic U.S. ambassador to Cyprus, wherever she has served since 2023, juggling her interim wartime posting with her erstwhile diplomatic obligations.
"Julie Davis is simply a pro: devoted to U.S. interests and values, to the Free World, and to Ukraine arsenic portion of the Free World," said Daniel Fried, erstwhile U.S. Ambassador to Poland, who has known Davis for years.
Davis ushered the embassy successful Kyiv done a play of fluctuating U.S. argumentation connected Ukraine, with Mr. Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner often taking the pb successful diplomatic efforts alternatively of vocation diplomats.
In November, Davis was acceptable to big Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll astatine the ambassador's residence during his archetypal sojourn to Kyiv. But upon his arrival, the Trump medication pressed Ukraine to judge a bid connection shaped by meetings betwixt Witkoff and Russian negotiators.
That connection fell done aft Moscow refused to judge the terms, but Witkoff and Kushner person continued to pb American diplomatic efforts to extremity the warfare since.
In February, American officials mediated 2 trilateral summits with Ukrainian and Russian negotiators, which Ukrainian officials told CBS News were the astir productive diplomatic sessions of the war. But diplomacy has since stalled amid the U.S.' ongoing warfare with Iran.
The past gathering betwixt American and Ukrainian negotiators took spot connected March 22.
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