Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin speaks during a news conference with his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni in Kiev, Ukraine October 27, 2015. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine has rejected Russia's proposed candidate for its next ambassador to Kiev, a senior Ukrainian foreign ministry official said.
Mikhail Zurabov, who was Moscow's envoy in Kiev during anti-Russian street protests, Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and its involvement in the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, stepped down in July.
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