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May 30, 2021:
1/ "Authorities in Kyiv🇺🇦 did not immediately announce the cause of death for Andriy Beshta, 45, who had served as Ukraine's ambassador to Thailand🇹🇭 from Nov 2015... (con't)
rferl.org/a/ukraine-dipl…

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"Police in Thailand quoted Beshta's teenage son, Ostap Beshta, as saying that his father had been feeling fine before he went to sleep on May 29 at about 11 pm local time in their shared hotel room on the island of Koh Lipe.

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"Since 2017, Beshta had also served part-time as Ukraine's ambassador to Laos🇱🇦 and Myanmar🇲🇲, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said." (more)

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So Ukraine replaced at least 2 ambassadors in Apr 2021, one to Austria and the other to Southeast Asia. @ChristopherJM /end

https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1398893220369776643