US Embassy in Ukraine Closed, Significant Air Attack Expected

The US Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, has received information about a possible significant attack Wednesday and will be closed, the US Department of State Consulate Affairs said in a statement.

“due to great care, the embassy will be closed and embassy workers are being instructed to stay sheltered in the country” ) says in this department's statement, which was published on the American Embassy website in Kiev, news agency reports “.

The US's “Embassy recommends to American citizens that they be prepared to take refuge immediately in the event an air alarm is reported” commented further.

The warning comes a day after Ukraine used American ATACMS missiles to attack Russian territory, using the recently granted permission by the outgoing American president on the same war day.

Russia has been warning the West for months that if Washington allows Ukraine to launch American, British and French missiles deep in Russia, Moscow will consider these NATO members directly involved in the Ukrainian war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that Moscow would counter Ukraine's attacks with weapons of American production deep in Russia, national broadcasting.

On Tuesday, Putin He has set the threshold. to carry out a nuclear attack by Russia in response to a wider range of conventional attacks, and nuclear dangers are increasing in times of higher tensions between Russia and the West in more than half a century.