Return the Australian Ambassador to Ukraine: Opposition

Australian Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham is calling for the return of Australia’s ambassador to Ukraine to Kyiv. He also promised the Coalition would reopen Australia’s embassy in the Ukrainian capital. It is currently stationed in Warsaw, Poland, due to staff safety and security concerns. The Senator is currently in Kyiv, meeting with senior Ukrainian ministers and witnessing the war’s impact firsthand on the ground. Speaking from Ukraine, Birmingham shared his concerns about Australia’s ambassador not being in Ukraine while Australians continue to foot the rent for the embassy. “We’ve been clear for some time that Australia’s ambassador to Ukraine should ideally be in Ukraine. Instead, we’ve got a situation where the Albanese government is still paying rent for an Australian embassy in the Canadian embassy in Kyiv. Still, our ambassador is actually based in Poland some 100 kilometres away,” he told Sky News....