Australia’s ambassador ‘should’ be in Ukraine: Simon Birmingham

Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham has called for Australia’s embassy in Kyiv to reopen because Australia’s ambassador should be in Ukraine. The Coalition has pledged to reopen Australia’s embassy in the Ukrainian capital as soon as possible. Australia’s embassy in Kyiv closed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. “We’ve been clear for some time that Australia’s ambassador to Ukraine should ideally be in Ukraine,” Mr Birmingham told Sky News Australia. “Instead, we’ve got a situation where the Albanese government is still paying rent in the Canadian embassy here in Kyiv … but our ambassador is actually based in Poland.”