From Reuters:
“Russia says Kyiv embassy
working normally after report on families leaving”
Russia said on Tuesday its
embassy in Kyiv was operating as usual following a New York Times report that
Moscow had begun evacuating the families of staff at its diplomatic missions in
Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported. The New York Times cited a senior
Ukrainian official as saying that 18 people, mostly family members of Russian
diplomats, had left Ukraine on Jan. 5. It said around 30 others left the
embassy in Kyiv and the consulate in Lviv in western Ukraine over the next few
days. The U.S. newspaper also reported that diplomats at two other Russian
consulates had been told to prepare to leave Ukraine. The Russian foreign
ministry did not comment on its consulates in Ukraine but told Interfax that
its embassy in Kyiv was operating normally. It did not provide further detail. The
Ukrainian foreign ministry said it had not received any information from Moscow
about the evacuation of employees from its diplomatic outposts in Ukraine. It
added that Kyiv had no plans to evacuate Ukrainian diplomats from Russia.
Troop movements by Russia near
its border with Ukraine have prompted Western fears that Moscow is planning to
invade. Russian authorities deny such a plan but have used the standoff to
campaign for security guarantees from the West that would include a stop to
NATO's potential expansion eastward and a formal veto on Ukraine, a former
Soviet republic, from ever joining the military alliance.
^ This latest move doesn’t look
good. ^
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