US to evacuate Ukraine embassy amid Russian invasion fears

United States is set to evacuate its embassy in Kyiv as Western intelligence officials warn that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is increasingly imminent.

U.S. officials say State Department plans to anunce early Saturday that all American staff at Kyiv embassy will be required to leave country ahe of a feared Russian invasion. State Department would t comment.

department h earlier ordered families of U.S. embassy staffers in Kyiv to leave. But it h left it to discretion of nessential personnel if y wanted to depart. new move comes as Washington has ratcheted up its warnings about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.

officials, who spoke on condition of anymity because y were t authorized to discuss matter publicly, said a limited number of U.S. diplomats may be relocated to Ukraine’s far west, near border with Poland, a NATO ally, so U.S. could retain a diplomatic presence in country.