US Department of State Building in Washington DC. File photoWASHINGTON, Jan 22 The US State Department ordered the evacuation of families of diplomats from the US embassy in Ukraine starting Monday, a FoxNews journalist said on Twitter. out of the country on Monday,” the post reads. , this information was provided by officials. The day before, CNN, citing sources, reported that the US Embassy in Kiev asked the State Department to allow all non-essential personnel and their families to leave, and the evacuation would most likely begin next week. As CNN reported, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky discussed this issue with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and told him that the evacuation would be an «overreaction». The United States and other countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, which have increased the number of exercises in the Black Sea, are coming. As Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted earlier, NATO is increasing arms supplies to Ukraine, where the number of Western instructors has increased. According to the diplomat, this could provoke the Ukrainian authorities «to military adventures,» which poses a direct threat to Russia's security. Kiev sent half of the entire personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the Donbass, the department noted. Moscow believes that the West is trying to create a grouping of troops near the Russian borders.
Russia will give a proper response to any provocations in Ukraine, Lavrov said
