Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, sent a not-so-subtle sartorial message to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday during the broadcast of “The Late Show.”
Yovanovitch wore a bracelet with the words “Fuck You Putin”.
The diplomat bought the bracelets in bulk during her time in Ukraine and she regularly gave them to visitors to the US embassy, she told host Stephen Colbert. She gave one to the comedian.
Check out Yovanovitch’s comments here:
Yovanovitch was recalled from her ambassadorship in 2019 after a smear campaign by Donald Trump allies during the former president’s first impeachment inquiry for withholding military aid to Ukraine in exchange for dirt on Joe Biden.
Trump’s behavior showed Putin and other autocrats that Trump was “ready to use our national security for his own personal and political gain,” she said.
“I think that really undermined our national security and our ability to move forward when people could see that the President of the United States was ready to act not in the interest of the nation, but in his own personal interest,” he added. Yovanovitch ready.
Watch the rest of the interview here:
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
