NATO has decided to relocate for security reasons to the staff of its office in Kiev in Lviv, western Ukraine, and in Brusselswhere it has its headquarters, although it has made it clear that its headquarters in the Ukrainian capital remains operationalsources from the Alliance told Efe this Saturday.
“The safety of our staff is paramount, which is why staff has been relocated to Lviv and Brussels”, said the sources, who stressed that “NATO offices in Ukraine are still operational”.
The sources emphasized that NATO and allied countries are “following and evaluating the situation very closely” and that “they continue to take all necessary measures.”
“We continue to call on Russia to de-escalate and choose the path of diplomacy,” they concluded.
This week, the United States announced the “temporary” transfer of its embassy operations in Ukraine from Kiev to Lvivthe largest city in the west of the country, while other countries such as Israel are also contemplating that possibility.
United States and the European Union they had also already decided to leave their non-essential diplomatic personnel and their families from the countrygiven the increase in violence in eastern Ukraine and the possibility that Russia will launch an attack imminently.
Germany, France and Austria reiterated this Saturday their call for their citizens to leave Ukraine, something that the US, the UK, Spain and Greece had also done. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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