President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Yuriy Tokar as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Kenya. The relevant decree No. 535/2025 has been published on the official website of the head of state.
In addition, Decree No. 536/2025 also appoints Yuriy Tokar as permanent representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) on a part-time basis.
Yuriy Tokar was born in 1976 in Lviv. He graduated from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv with a degree in international relations. He has worked in Ukrainian diplomatic missions in Poland and the United States, as well as in the Consular Service Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
