KYIV (Reuters) – The U.S. embassy to Ukraine’s remaining diplomatic workers will work from the western city of Lviv, on-line newspaper Ukrainskaya Pravda cited a U.S. diplomatic supply as saying on Sunday, amid mounting fears of a attainable Russian invasion.
The U.S. embassy to Ukraine couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
Washington stated on Saturday it was ordering most workers at its embassy in Kyiv to go away Ukraine instantly due to the risk of an invasion by Russia.
“This is a short lived resolution, the embassy group will return to Kyiv as quickly because the safety scenario permits,” Ukrainskaya Pravda’s supply was quoted as saying.
U.S. warnings that the Russian construct-up of greater than 100,000 troops close to Ukraine might herald an invasion have change into more and more pressing in latest days.
Moscow has denied that it plans to invade and has accused the West of hysteria.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; writing by Tom Balmforth; enhancing by)
