U.S. ambassador to Ukraine: 'It's going to be a long, grinding, tough war'

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The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has gone through a lot recently.

Former president Donald Trump recalled the ambassador in 2019, an episode that became a big part of his first impeachment. This past February, the embassy was abruptly shut down shortly before Russia invaded.

It reopened last month, and the newly arrived ambassador, Bridget Brink, is the first permanent, Senate-confirmed ambassador in three years. She's overseeing a massive U.S. assistance program to Ukraine with a staff that for now is much smaller than what it was before the war.