Today, Saturday, the German Foreign Ministry issued a warning to German citizens currently in Ukraine advising them to leave the country without delay.
“Travel warnings have been issued to Ukraine and German citizens are strongly advised to leave the country immediately,” the ministry said in a warning posted on its website.
The Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also advised all its citizens in Ukraine to leave the country, except for the western region.
Meanwhile, German airline Lufthansa announced that it has decided to suspend all round-trip flights to and from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, between February 21-28.
These measures come against the background of a sharp escalation of tensions in eastern Ukraine, where hostilities between the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk on the one hand, and government forces in Kiev are escalating.
The situation in the region is deteriorating, coinciding with allegations by NATO member states that Russia is mobilizing more than 100,000 large forces near the Ukrainian border to “prepare to launch a new invasion” of Ukrainian territory.
The Russian government has repeatedly emphasized that it does not intend to launch any operation against Ukraine, and stressed that all the reports about this are baseless and that the purpose of these allegations is to escalate tensions in the region and fuel anti-Russian rhetoric. which justifies new economic sanctions and NATO’s eastward expansion, which it opposes. Moscow strongly says this threatens Russia’s security.
Source: agencies
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