🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 State Department advises Americans to leave Ukraine on commercial flights

The State Department also recommends not visiting Russia due to "persisting tensions" along the Russian-Ukrainian border

-RIA Novosti

🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 State Department official, in explaining ordered departure for Kyiv embassy families, says the decision was based on conclusion that Russia could invade at any time. But notes that USG is still not sure that Russia will invade.

Officials said State Dept is advising US citizens in Ukraine to depart now and says USG will have limited/no ability to assist them in departing should Russia invade.

Officials declined to provide any estimate of the number of Americans in Ukraine

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🇺🇦A convoy of Ukrainian BTRs in the town of Druzhkivka, around 40km from the front line in the Donbas region.

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🇺🇦🇺🇲 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry considers the decision of the US State Department on the departure of family members of employees of the US embassy in Kiev to be premature, spokesman for the department Oleg Nikolenko said.

He explained that there have been no fundamental changes in the security situation recently, since the Russian threat has remained constant since 2014, and the accumulation of Russian troops near the border began in April last year.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡ #Breaking
Britain began evacuating diplomats from Ukraine due to the escalation of the situation - BBC

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Many folk who insist Ukraine has the sovereign right to make its own foreign policy decisions don't seem to believe that Germany has the same agency.

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