U.S. Closes Embassy In Kyiv

The United States is closing the US Embassy in Kyiv and “temporarily relocating” the small number of remaining diplomatic personnel in the country to Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, “due to the dramatic acceleration in the buildup of Russian forces,” CNN reports.

Wall Street Journal: “As part of the move, the State Department ordered the destruction of networking equipment and computer workstations and the dismantling of the embassy telephone system… Those moves render the Kyiv embassy inoperable as a diplomatic facility.”