ANKARA
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired Ukraine’s ambassador to Kazakhstan, a decree from Ukraine’s presidency has announced.
Tuesday’s resolution comes amid comments by Ukrainian Ambassador Petro Vrublevsky about the “murder of Russians” in Ukraine.
“We try to kill as many as possible. The more Russians we kill now, the less our young people will have to kill,” Vrublevsky said in an Aug. 21 interview.
The outrage sparked outrage in Moscow and Astana, who criticized the Ukrainian ambassador’s comments. Kazakhstan then asked Ukraine to update it.
Vrublevsky issued an official apology, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Aibek Smadiyarov said after Ukraine’s ambassador was summoned to the ministry.
On October 4, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Kazakhstan’s ambassador, Yermek Kosherbayev, after reports emerged that Vrublevsky had returned to Astana.