Swedish Ambassador to Ukraine Tobias Thyberg, on the job for nearly a year, speaks with the Kyiv Post at his official residence above the Swedish Embassy in Kyiv on Aug. 12, 2020. This is his second ambassadorship. He served two years in Afghanistan before coming to Ukraine.
Asked to name a single cultural trait he admired in Ukrainians, Swedish Ambassador to Ukraine Tobias Thyberg came up with “resilience.”
And for his country, one of Ukraine’s most important European partners, it’s “optimism.”