Russia commenced evacuating diplomatic workforce from Ukraine, its embassy in Kyiv advised AFP, an afternoon after lawmakers in Moscow granted President Vladimir Putin permission to apply pressure abroad.
Asked if the evacuation had begun, the embassy’s spokesman Denis Golenko advised AFP with the aid of using phone: “Yes.”
Moscow’s overseas ministry introduced Tuesday it might evacuate diplomats from the u . s . soon, pronouncing this turned into so as to “defend their lives”.
The Russian flag turned into diminished over the embassy’s building, consistent with eyewitnesses.
An AFP reporter noticed numerous households leaving the embassy Wednesday with suitcases.
Golenko stated the evacuation turned into “related to the truth that Western embassies introduced evacuations of a number of their workforce, and that our ministry additionally took this decision.”
Some Western embassies, inclusive of the US and Britain, moved their workforce to the metropolis of Lviv close to the Polish border.
They did so fearing a Russian invasion of Ukraine, pronouncing the capital should come beneathneath attack.
