an hour agoWhat's going on? CIA leaves Kiev Embassy
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)The CIA station in Kiev has been temporarily evacuated together with the embassy and moved to Lviv, according to CNN sources. The U.S. media reports that this was known as the agency relies on embassys to operate abroad in Kiev, as it does in other cities worldwide. According to two other known sources [...]
According to two other sources familiar with this issue, the kind of work that intelligence agencies officers in Ukraine were doing is the standard work of interconnecting partners that has been continuing there at least since the Obama administration.
But the measure could make it even more difficult for the CIA to collect information on Russian activities within Ukraine, at a time when the United States is watching carefully for signs of war.
Russia's lower house of Parliament, known as Duma, has voted yesterday to formally request President Vladimir Putin to recognise the independence of separatist regions east of Ukraine, raising tensions, possibly.
Duma Mayor Vyacheslav Volodin said the resolution would be sent to Putin immediately. The Kremlin has so far not published its position on this proposal.
US State Secretary Antony Blinken has said Russia would undermine Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and break international law should it recognise the two self-declared separatist republics in eastern Ukraine. This was the topic of discussion yesterday between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
