Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has dismissed Oleksandr Motsyk as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in Antigua and Barbuda, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

The corresponding decrees on his dismissal were posted on the website of the Ukrainian president on Tuesday.

Motsyk had served as Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S. since 2010.