<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>Ukraine's new ambassador to Spain, Yuliia Sokolovska, presented the Copies of her Letters of Credence to the Director General of Protocol, Adrián Martín Couce, this Friday at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to diplomatic sources and the Finnish Embassy itself, which spoke to The Diplomat.</strong></h4> Sokolovska, 40, was appointed to the position last July by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The new ambassador will also be Ukraine's permanent representative to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), based in Madrid. Yulia Sokolovska, a graduate of the Vadym Hetman National Economic University in Kyiv in 2007 and the National Academy of Public Administration in 2016, served as Minister of Social Policy from August 2019 to March 2020 and, from that date until September 2024, served as Deputy Director of the Presidential Office (under Zelenskyy's authority) for social affairs. With her appointment, Yulia Sokolovska becomes the first woman to head the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid since her country's independence in 1991. She replaces Serhii Pohoreltsev at the Embassy, who had held the position since July 2020 and who has therefore been responsible for representing his country in Spain since the very beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022. Pohoreltsev has been assigned to the Ukrainian Embassy in Mexico.
