The head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov notably urged the United States on Monday to evacuate its embassy during a telephone interview with Marco Rubio. Two days earlier, Moscow had used its Orechnik nuclear-capable ballistic missile on the Ukrainian capital.
Russian diplomacy on Monday called on 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 “companies 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.
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The head of Russian diplomacy Sergey Lavrov on Monday urged the United States to evacuate its embassy in kyiv during a telephone conversation with American Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He “she attracts attention” on this statement from his ministry “recommending that the United States, as well as other states with missions in kyiv, ensure the evacuation of their diplomatic personnel and nationals from the Ukrainian capital”says the press release from the Russian ministry.
“Evacuation is out of the question”
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Andriï Sybiga, called on kyiv’s partners to “do not give in to Russian blackmail” and to provide more aid and arms to Ukraine. France, for its part, brushed aside the Russian warning. “We are used to threats from Putin. Evacuating is out of the question.” our diplomats, commented the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, questioned by journalists.
Russian diplomacy mentions in its press release the strike by Ukrainian drones which targeted the dormitory of a high school in Starobilsk (Starobelsk in Russian), in the Lugansk region occupied by Moscow in eastern Ukraine, during the night from Thursday to Friday. According to Moscow, this strike destroyed a dormitory where dozens of teenagers were sleeping, killing 21 people and injuring more than 40 others. This “bloody attack” et “libér” East “the straw that breaks the camel’s back”justified the Russian ministry.
The Ukrainian Army General Staff said its forces had bombed several Russian military sites that night, including one «headquarters» of a located unit “in the zone” from Starobilsk. The Russian press, for its part, published the testimonies of survivors and relatives of the teenagers killed in this attack.
Russia had already called on foreign diplomatic personnel to leave the Ukrainian capital before the May 9 parade on Red Square in Moscow, threatening Ukraine with reprisals if it disrupted the commemorations of the victory over Nazi Germany. American President Donald Trump then announced at the last minute a temporary ceasefire between the two countries.
