German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said that the number of employees at the German Embassy in Kiev will be reduced, reports the words of the Minister TASS.
The diplomatic mission will continue to work, the embassy will remain open. At the same time, the consulate in Donetsk, which has been operating in Dnipro since 2014, is temporarily transferred to Lviv, the embassy said.
Earlier, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the German authorities urged their citizens to leave Ukraine if their stay there is not necessary.
A number of countries announced the start of the evacuation of their diplomats from Kiev and recommended fellow citizens to leave Ukraine after US President Joe Biden turned to the Americans in Ukraine and asked them to leave the country "right now" because of the likelihood of an escalation of the conflict. The State Department also warned the Americans that in the event of hostilities that could begin "at any moment", the US authorities will not be able to evacuate fellow citizens.
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