U.S. Embassy building in KievMOSCOW, Feb 12 State Department officials are personally calling fellow citizens in Ukraine and urging them to leave. This is reported by The Telegraph newspaper, citing Buzzfeed News journalist Christopher Miller.
"The US State Department is calling Americans in Ukraine and asking them to leave the country immediately. This is not an automatic message",» he tweeted.
NEW: US State Department is calling US citizens here in Ukraine and telling them they should leave the country immediately. It's not an automated message. A real person is on the line asking if people have made travel arrangements. @Kiehart just got that call here in Kyiv.
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 11, 2022 The correspondent himself referred to the American photographer Pete Keehart, who later confirmed this information on his Twitter page. «He also asked if I had left the country. I replied that I was staying as a journalist. I was advised to be careful,» Kihart said.
Just got a call from a person reading from a script reiterating the directive for Americans to leave Ukraine and asking whether I’d departed yet.
I told them I was staying as a journalist.
“Well, be safe,” the caller responded.
— Pete Kiehart (@Kiehart) February 11, 2022 Recently, relations between Russia and Western countries have become even more tense. Washington and Brussels accuse Moscow of preparing an «invasion» of Ukraine and, against this background, are strengthening their presence in Eastern Europe. Russia rejects all claims and reminds that Kiev does not comply with the Minsk agreements: the Ukrainian authorities have concentrated half of the army’s personnel near the line of contact and are firing at militiamen from prohibited weapons. grouping at the Russian borders. They also explained that the main reason for the escalation is the actions of the United States and NATO, which are pumping weapons to Ukraine, thereby pushing it to military adventures. At the end of last year, Russia handed over draft documents on security guarantees to the United States and its allies. The main demand was the non-expansion of NATO to the East, however, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, it was precisely its Western partners that were ignored in a written response. lies about Ukraine