Kyiv | Ukraine’s new foreign minister has cultivated deep contacts in NATO states during postings to Ankara and Warsaw, conducting his first phone call as top diplomat in fluent Polish.
But his most important qualification may be proximity to Ukraine’s wartime power centre. Andrii Sybiha, who succeeded Dmytro Kuleba in a sweeping cabinet overhaul last week, worked in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office under the powerful chief-of-staff, Andriy Yermak, during the first two years of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
