Evacuation continues at the US Embassy in Ukraine
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The decision to move was made urgently in response to changing safety assessments; The move is underway right now, Sunday.
The diplomatic staff of the United States Embassy who remained in Ukraine after the wave of evacuation are moving to work in Lviv, said European truth an interlocutor from the US diplomatic service.
The decision to move was made urgently in response to changing safety assessments; The move is underway right now, Sunday.
“This is a temporary solution, the embassy team will return to Kiev as soon as the security situation allows,” said a State Department spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
In the United States, there is no estimate of when the embassy in Kiev will reopen.
“The main team of the embassy, heads of departments, etc. will work in Lviv,” the source said. Chargé d’Affaires Christina Quinn is also relocating to Lviv.
The interlocutor stressed that the embassy building in Kiev, despite this decision, “will not remain abandoned” – technical personnel remain working there, including to ensure the security of buildings. Earlier, on Saturday, the State Department also ordered non-critical diplomats to leave Kiev, they left Ukraine.
It is also known that Canada moved the embassy from Kiev to Lvov. The European Union is not going to take its diplomats from Kiev.
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