Tuesday, 15 February 2022 (YJC)_ The US State Department has ordered the closure of its embassy in Kiev, Ukraine.
The US State Department announced that it had closed its embassy in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, and that all diplomatic activities of the US embassy would be relocated to the city of Lviv in western Ukraine (near Poland).
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a statement about the closure of the US embassy in Kiev:
We temporarily suspended the activities of the US Embassy in Kiev due to the increase in the Russian military presence (on the Ukrainian border).
He continued:
A limited team will be present near a city in Poland for diplomatic activities.
The US Secretary of State added:
In the shadow of the Putin-Biden dialogue, they will continue to work for a diplomatic solution and the channels of dialogue will remain open.
Blinken called on all American citizens still in Ukraine to leave immediately.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday evening that the State Department had ordered the destruction of all computers at the US embassy in Kiev.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday claimed that an attack on Ukraine could take place within the next 48 hours and called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to retreat from the brink.
In a message to our European allies, he said:
Serious preparations have been made for a Russian attack with about 130,000 troops on the Ukrainian border.
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