'I didn’t believe Putin would invade. It didn’t make sense.” Vasyl Myroshnychenko is a techy, media-savvy Millennial, somewhat like Ukraine’s comedian-President Volodymyr Zelensky. | GeoffWinestock
Vasyl Myroshnychenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia, is 15 minutes late for our lunch because he has spent the morning in Parliament House doing television interviews. It was Tuesday this week, and the leaders of the G7 met in Madrid to talk about their response.
Vasyl Myroshnychenko is an unusual diplomat, with a background in the art of public relations rather than diplomacy.While the Kremlin is dominated by grey apparatchiks stuck in a Soviet time warp, Myroshnychenko, just 41, is a techy, media-savvy Millennial, somewhat like Ukraine’s comedian-President Volodymyr Zelensky, who would be a breath of fresh air even in Australian diplomacy.
He was working for a public relations company in 2004 when he and his boss came up with a cheeky plan to win the pan-European song contest as a way of promoting Ukraine’s national brand. Fresh elections were called and the anti-Putin candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, won. When he hosted the 2005 Eurovision in Kyiv, Myroshnychenko says it was a “wow” moment in Ukraine’s fight for greater independence., a hatted French restaurant in central Canberra, which on this weekday is virtually empty. We order just two courses because the ambassador is flying to Ukraine that night and is short on time. I speculate that he wants to be back home in case Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits.
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