The French Foreign Ministry called on French citizens in Ukraine to leave the country. This is stated in a message published on Saturday on the website of the department.
The Austrian Foreign Ministry made a similar request. Citizens are recommended to immediately leave Ukraine, with the exception of a number of western regions. In addition, a travel warning has been issued, with the exception of Lviv, Transcarpathian and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.
Earlier, the US State Department and the British Foreign Office addressed their citizens with a call to leave Ukraine.
The staff of the NATO mission in Ukraine is also being transferred from Kiev to Lvov and Brussels. But the offices of the alliance continue to work, the press center of the information of the NATO documentation reported.
In the West, they continue to escalate the situation around Russia, claiming the concentration of a large number of troops on the border with Ukraine. President Joe Biden spoke of an alleged "imminent invasion" by Russia. Under the cover of propaganda, the Kiev authorities deployed significant forces to the line of demarcation in the Donbass.
The bombing of infrastructure and residential areas intensified. In the DPR and LPR, fearing an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they issued an order to evacuate women, children and the elderly to the Rostov region.
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