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The General Who Doesn’t Want to Be an Ambassador: Why Palisa Flees the President’s Office for the Front
Pavlo Palisa turned down the post of Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States and asked to be returned to his brigade. The official reason is the wish to fight; the unofficial one is that nobody wants a scapegoat’s post in Washington. The author reads the refusal as a symptom of a deep crisis in Ukraine’s wartime diplomacy.