US Department of State Building in Washington DCWASHINGTON, Feb 11 modes of transport, the State Department said. Thus, Washington has tightened the wording of the warning. Previously, Americans were urged only to explore the possibility of leaving this country.
"U.S. citizens should not travel to Ukraine. Those in Ukraine should leave now using commercial or other transportation options available to individuals", the statement said.
The State Department warned that the US authorities would not be able to evacuate their citizens from Ukraine in the event of hostilities that could begin «at any moment.» Recently, the Ukrainian army has concentrated half of its personnel in the Donbass and regularly fires at militias, including with the use of prohibited equipment — Turkish strike drone Bayraktar, as well as MLRS «Smerch» and «Hurricane». In addition, they have at their disposal Javelin anti-tank missile systems supplied from the United States as military assistance. Moscow has repeatedly drawn the attention of Washington and European countries that the Ukrainian authorities are trying in every possible way to sabotage the implementation of the Minsk agreements. Since 2014, NATO countries led by the United States have been supplying weapons to Ukraine and training its military, which directly violates the Minsk agreements and negatively affects the settlement in Donbass . In addition to the Americans, Great Britain, Canada, France, Poland, Turkey, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, and Estonia participate in deliveries totaling billions of dollars. At the same time, Western countries have repeatedly announced that Russia is preparing an «invasion» of Ukraine. Moscow denies the allegations and believes the reports are a pretext for deploying U.S. and NATO forces in Eastern Europe. to war, said Naryshkin