🇺🇲⚡ If the United States decides to evacuate the families of diplomats from Ukraine, they should not wait for the evacuation to take place on government aircraft, RIA Novosti was told in the State Department

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The United States does not plan to evacuate citizens from Ukraine, the State Department told RIA Novosti

🇺🇲🇺🇦 CNN: The US Embassy in Kiev has asked the State Department for permission to leave all non-essential staff and their families, multiple sources familiar with the matter say.

A State Department spokesman said they had "nothing to announce at this time," adding: "As always, we are doing thorough contingency planning in the event that the security situation worsens."

An embassy spokesman refused to confirm this information and redirected CNN to the State Department.

A source close to the Ukrainian government told CNN that the US has informed Ukraine that it will "probably start evacuating as early as next week" families of diplomats from the embassy in Kiev.

The source said Zelensky had discussed this with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and told him that if the United States took such a dramatic step, it would be "an overreaction." CNN has already reached out to the Ukrainian government for comment.

A State Department spokesman said the department would not comment on private discussions, adding that such decisions are based on one criterion: the safety of Americans.

⚡️Germany prepares plans for evacuation of embassy in Ukraine - FOCUS

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🇺🇲🇺🇦 I'm really worried that President Zelensky sometimes seems to be more interested in twitter battles with American leaders than in defending his own country - Senator Chris Murphy, who just returned from a bipartisan visit to Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇲⚡Moscow expects military and informational provocations from the US and the Kiev regime on the eve of the Beijing Olympics - Russian Foreign Ministry

Winter Olympic Games 2022 will be held from February 4 to 20 in Beijing

«The British Embassy in Kyiv is open to the public by appointment only. If you need to contact the Consular Section»

🇺🇲🇸🇾 A video of the first seconds of the storming of the al-Sinaa prison near the Syrian district of Guwayran in Hasak by militants of the Islamic State’s MTO militants has appeared.

There's no solid evidence that Russia is planning to invade the Ukraine, at least not without the Ukrainians attacking first.

My guess is that the Kremlin is strategically moving some chess pieces to the borders in hopes of triggering hysteria from the neurotic Jewish media and incompetent foreign policy establishment in the US.

The goal is to cause a clash of interests inside the NATO camp. It's already happening with Germany refusing to go along with Washington's escalation.

Germany needs Russian natural gas. It's not in Western Europe's interest to get involved in the Ukraine border conflict. It's not really in America's interest either.

But nobody in Washington wants to accept the reality that there are now other superpowers in the world.

If a war does happen, there will be some brief resistance from militia groups that will buy Volodymyr Zelensky enough time to collect all the money he looted and escape to Miami to live next door to evacuated Afghan government officials. Then it will be over.

🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany to transfer a massive, 5.3 million euro field hospital to Ukraine next month.

https://prm.ua/nimechchyna-peredast-ukraini-polovyy-shpytal/

🇷🇺 The Russian Foreign Ministry called an information operation a publication in the media that the President of China allegedly asked Putin "not to attack Ukraine" on the eve of the Olympics

🇫🇷 Right now in France, the police are pouring “democratic” pepper gas on protesters.

🇺🇲🇷🇴 Eyewitnesses filmed a convoy with American tanks in Romania

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ DPR observes about 120,000 Ukrainian military near the line of contact in Donbass, equipment is constantly coming in

Pushilin

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Pushilin does not rule out Kiev's provocations at industrial facilities in Donbass

🇩🇪🇺🇦 The German Foreign Ministry, after reports of plans to evacuate the families of embassy employees in Ukraine, said that no such "measures" were being taken.

🇷🇺🇧🇾 Another unit of Russian marines with military equipment arrived in Belarus for exercises

🇷🇺🐻 TASS | Venezuela ready to offer military help to Russia if relations with US exacerbate - envoy | 22-01-22
— "Venezuela is ready to provide military-technical assistance to Russia in case the Russian-US relations deteriorate, Russia’s Ambassador to Caracas Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov said on the YouTube channel Soloviev.Live on Saturday.

"Absolutely," he said when asked whether Caracas would be capable of providing military and technical assistance to Moscow if Russian-US relations exacerbate sharply."

https://tass.com/politics/1391927