The United States is considering ordering family members of diplomats in Ukraine to return home and give non-essential staff the option to leave the country voluntarily
last week Russia had evacuated nearly 20 people, mostly family members of diplomats stationed in Ukraine, and told its diplomats to prepare to return home. "I've been absolutely clear with President Putin. He has no misunderstanding. If any — any — assembled Russian units move across the Ukrainian border, that is an invasion,” President Joe Biden
Thursday. “But it will be met with severe and coordinated economic response that I've discussed in detail with our allies, as well as laid out very clearly for President Putin.”in Geneva on Friday for high-stakes talks to de-escalate the tension over Ukraine. Moscow has demanded NATO to reduce its forces in the region, and promise that the alliance will not accept Ukraine and Georgia as new members. The West has said the latter condition is off the table.
the meeting “frank and substantive.” Russia repeated its previous position that it does not plan to invade Ukraine, Blinken said. He added the U.S. and its allies would not be convinced unless Russia removed its troops on the Ukrainian border.
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