Canada has decided to withdraw the families of diplomatic workers from Ukraine amid “destabilizing activities” in and around the country. About it reported on Tuesday, January 25, in an official statement on the website of the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“We have decided to temporarily withdraw from the country the children of Canadian Embassy employees under the age of 18 and accompanying family members,” the message says.
The department noted that the ministry and the Canadian embassy in Kiev will continue to monitor developments.
In recent weeks, the Western media have repeatedly appeared articles about the alleged possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. Against this background, American lawmakers are calling for tougher sanctions against Moscow. Russia has repeatedly rejected reports of an alleged possible invasion of Ukraine. Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov noted that Moscow has no intentions to attack Ukraine and cannot be.
At the same time, such statements from the West began to sound more and more often after Moscow’s demand to stop the spread of NATO to the east and remove missile launchers from the borders of the Russian Federation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that there are a lot of rumors and unreliable data that are “information hysteria” about the situation in Ukraine and the allegedly planned attack by Russia. He stressed that the actions of Washington and NATO lead to an escalation of tension in Ukraine.
On the eve of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported that the German authorities notified the foreign ministry of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of their intention to evacuate part of the diplomatic corps and employees of the German embassy in Kiev.
On January 23, the US State Department ordered to begin the voluntary departure of part of the American diplomatic staff and members of the families of diplomats from the territory of Ukraine. In addition, the State Department issued recommendation, in which American citizens were advised not to travel to the Russian Federation due to “continued tensions” on the Russian-Ukrainian border.
The representative of the State Department pointed out that in the event of an escalation of tension in Ukraine, the United States authorities will not be able to take their citizens out of the country. As specified, Moscow “may create a false pretext for the invasion of Ukraine”, but “the intentions of the President of the Russian Federation remain unknown for sure.”
At the same time, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called the decision of the State Department premature. According to the agency, in fact, there have been no fundamental changes in the security situation recently.
On January 21, at the talks between US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Russian minister urged the Secretary of State not to replicate speculation about alleged Russian aggression in Ukraine, but to force Kiev to comply with the Minsk agreements.
On January 20, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, pointed out that the US statements about the alleged preparation of a Russian offensive against Ukraine are being made in order to create an information cover for preparing their own large-scale provocations, including military ones, which could have the most tragic consequences for the regional and global security.
Earlier, the United States stated that Russia itself was preparing to evacuate the families of its diplomats from Ukraine in late December – early January. But the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation denied this information and reported that the Russian embassy in Kiev was operating as usual.
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