U.S. President Barack Obama intends to appoint Marie Yovanovitch new Ambassador to Ukraine, the press service of the White House has stated.

In turn, the president put forward the incumbent head of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, for the post of U.S. Ambassador to Greece.

Yovanovitch now holds the post of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Earlier she held the post of Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine (2001-2004).