War in Ukraine: Moscow calls on foreigners and diplomats to leave kyiv before new Russian strikes

Final warnings. Russian diplomacy called on Monday May 25 foreign nationals living in kyiv, including diplomatic staff, to leave the Ukrainian capital before further bombings by the Russian army.

This announcement comes after particularly massive Russian strikes targeting Ukraine this weekend, particularly kyiv, leaving at least four dead and around a hundred injured. Russia fired a latest generation missile, the Orechnik, for the third time since the start of the conflict.

News “strikes will be carried out on decision-making centers” and “enterprises of the military-industrial complex” in kyiv, warned the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release, without giving a precise time frame before these attacks.

“We warn foreign nationals, including staff of diplomatic missions and representations of international organizations, of the need to leave the city as soon as possible, and residents of the Ukrainian capital not to approach military and administrative infrastructure”he added. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday urged the United States to evacuate its embassy in kyiv during a telephone conversation with American Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Russian Affairs Ministry said. foreigners.

France, for its part, brushed aside the Russian warning. “We are used to threats from Putin. Evacuating our diplomats is out of the question”commented the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, questioned by journalists.