The United States closed its embassy in Kiev

According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, the US State Department announced that it had closed its embassy in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, and that all diplomatic activities of the US Embassy would be transferred to the city of Lviv in western Ukraine (near Poland).

“We have temporarily suspended the US embassy in Kiev due to the increase in Russia’s military presence (on the Ukrainian border),” Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a statement about the closure of the US embassy in Kiev.

“A limited team will be present near a city in Poland for diplomatic activities,” he continued.

“Thanks to the Putin-Biden dialogue, we will continue to work for a diplomatic solution and the channels of dialogue will remain open,” he said.

Blinken called on all American citizens still in Ukraine to leave immediately.

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday evening that the State Department had ordered the destruction of all computers at the US embassy in Kiev.

Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday claimed that an attack on Ukraine could take place within the next 48 hours and called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to retreat from the brink.

“Serious preparations have been made for a Russian attack with about 130,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders,” he told European allies.

“I chaired a cabinet briefing on the serious threat posed by Russia against Ukraine,” British Foreign Secretary Liz Terrace tweeted Saturday night. “The latest information suggests that Russia may attack at any moment, and we urge the Kremlin to defuse tensions.”

About two months ago, the American media, referring to the deployment of 100,000 Russian troops on the Ukrainian border, started spying and reporting on the possibility of a Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, and escalated tensions in Eastern Europe.

Although Russia has repeatedly stated that it does not intend to invade Ukraine, the United States and European countries have stepped up their military preparations for what they say is a possible military move by Moscow. Some of these countries have sent troops and military equipment to Ukraine under the same pretext.

Russia, however, has made proposals to reduce Western tensions over Ukraine, including non-expansion of the NATO military alliance to its borders and the withdrawal of NATO troops from the region, in order to reduce tensions over Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said in a telephone conversation with his American counterpart that the US and its allies’ propaganda campaign for a “Russian invasion” of Ukraine was pursuing provocative goals.

“Washington and Brussels’ response to the draft US-Russia agreement and the agreement with NATO on our security guarantees, our key provisions, which are primarily in “It ignores the lack of NATO expansion and the deployment of strike weapons systems near Russia’s borders.”

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