“Military action by Russia could come at any time,” a senior State Department official said on a call with reporters Sunday night. “The United States government will not be in a position to evacuate U.S. citizens in such a contingency.”
The U.S. State Department is ordering family members of U.S. diplomats in Ukraine to evacuate the country in the coming days and authorizing non-emergency personnel to leave as well, in yet another signal of just how dire the situation between Ukraine and Russia has become in recent days.
The State Department’s decision is yet another indication of just how concerning the situation in Ukraine has become, as diplomatic efforts to thwart a Russian invasion into Ukraine have stalled, and another clear sign that the Biden Administration anticipates Russia to carry out attacks—probably sooner rather than later.
“You have basically voluntary evacuation, which allows dependents and non-essential personnel to leave, and then you have ordered evacuation, where basically leadership says everybody except you, you, and you leave,” Steven Pifer, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told The Daily Beast. “If you see that kind of drawdown beginning…that suggests to me the information is reaching a point where the U.S. government believes something is going to happen.
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