U.S. embassy building in KievWASHINGTON, Feb 12 The United States does not close its embassy in Kiev, but they are reducing the number of employees, including by transferring part of the diplomats to Lviv. «We are not closing the embassy, we are not suspending the operations of the embassy inside the country. We continue to reduce the number of personnel that we have in the country to perform only the most basic functions» , — said the official. «Part of the personnel will be relocated to Lviv for security reasons. I will not go into details of how many people we will have in Lviv, and how many remain in Kiev,» he added.
The State Department ordered a number of US Embassy employees to leave Ukraine
