Virtually all American staff at the Kyiv embassy will be required to leave ahead of a feared Russian invasion.
Members of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, volunteer military units of the Armed Forces stay in line before training in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. Some people in Ukraine's second-largest city are preparing to fight back if Russia invades. Kharkiv is just 40 kilometers from some of the tens of thousands of Russian troops massed at the border.
. But it had left it to the discretion of nonessential personnel if they wanted to depart. The new move comes as Washington has ratcheted up its warnings about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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