U.S. Charge d’Affaires a.i. in Ukraine George Kent has said that his knowledge of Russian and Polish helped him to learn Ukrainian, he said in an interview with Radio Svoboda (a media outlet that acts as a foreign agent)
George Kent stressed that learning Ukrainian was “not difficult” for him because he had knowledge of the Polish and Russian languages, which proved “very useful”.
As Kent said, he did it because he had promised “Ukrainian friends” to learn Ukrainian if he could return to Ukraine.