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US Embassy Staff Urged to Leave Ukraine
Source: Reuters, The Guardian, January 24, 2022
State department officials stressed the Kyiv embassy will remain open and that the announcement does not constitute an evacuation.
The US state department has ordered the families of all American personnel at the US embassy in Ukraine to leave the country amid heightened fears of a Russian invasion.
The department told the dependents of staffers at the US embassy in Kyiv that they must leave the country. It also said that non-essential embassy staff could leave Ukraine at government expense.