US defends evacuating embassy as Zelensky urges calm

Sunday, 13 February 2022Newsdesk
US defends evacuating embassy as Zelensky urges calm
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the "imminent" threat of Russian military action in Ukraine justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kyiv.

New Delhi, 13 February 2022

As per news report of BBC, Antony Blinken’s words came after Ukraine's president urged calm, saying the biggest enemy was panic.More than a dozen countries have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine.Moscow, with more than 100,000 troops near the border, has denied it plans to invade. The Kremlin's top foreign policy advisor, Yuri Ushakov, has dismissed US warnings of an attack, saying "hysteria has reached its peak".The crisis comes eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then, Ukraine's military has been locked in a war with Russian-backed rebels in eastern areas near Russia's borders.

Source - BBC

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