The Russian Foreign Ministry comments on publications on the preparation of Russian diplomats to leave the embassy in Ukraine

Attention is drawn to the statements that are heard from Kiev, as well as from a number of Western countries, that Russia is allegedly going to evacuate its diplomats from the Russian Embassy in the Ukrainian capital and the Consulate General in Lvov. In particular, such materials appeared on the page of the major American publication The New York Times, citing representatives of the Ukrainian authorities. It was stated that Russia "is evacuating its diplomats from members of their families from Kiev and Lvov, which may indicate preparations for the start of hostilities."

These statements drew particular attention due to the fact that just the other day the US State Department recommended that its citizens leave Ukraine. By the same logic, it turns out that it is the States that are preparing for hostilities on Ukrainian territory ...

The situation is being commented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The released release of the Russian Foreign Ministry says that the Russian embassy in Ukraine continues to work as before.

Noteworthy is the fact that since 2014, Ukraine itself has carried out a whole series of expulsions of Russian diplomats. It got to the point that the Russian embassy has been working for a year without an ambassador.

Thus, it turns out that when Kiev itself was engaged in the expulsion of Russian diplomats, preparations on its part for a large-scale war in the West (which itself expelled Russian diplomats), this was not called. Now they suddenly announced that if Russian diplomats themselves leave the territory of Ukraine, then this is “a signal for the possible start of a military operation.”

Comments

[Kesha1980]

Why are we worse than Canada? It is also necessary to send special forces to Kiev "to evacuate the embassy."
Today I read the news about sending Canadian special forces to Ukraine "to evacuate the embassy."

[Civil]

All right, families need to be evacuated. And those who remain then can be exchanged.

[210ox]

This "news" on Yandex in different variations hangs in the morning. Sometimes a refutation of the Foreign Ministry slips through

[Reptiloid]

why were they in Lvov, families, employees? It has long been necessary to return ours from there. What kind of diplomacy is there? Well, Kiev is the capital, of course. And even then, families could be sent away with all Kukuev’s inability to negotiate. Something like this

[fruc]

There is a consulate of the Russian Federation in Lvov, in addition, they are in Odessa, Chernigov, Kharkov, Kuev. There are also several Ukrainian consulates in the Russian Federation - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg.
All this, supposedly for the convenience of citizens' appeals ????, hmmm, is no longer relevant.

[fruc]

this is "a signal for the possible start of a military operation."

They (Westerners) want to present wishful thinking and are looking forward to the start of events.

[Vladimir Mashkov]

Quote: frruc

They (Westerners) want to present wishful thinking and are looking forward to the start of events.

I confess, I myself succumbed to this provocation and believed yesterday: a lot was pouring from all sides.

And here it is much more interesting: under all these restraining cries and cries of Russian offensive, Ukraine is being saturated with weapons and NATO members, Poroshenko arrived in Ukraine and a mess similar to the Kazakh one is being planned, followed by Zelensky’s request and the introduction of troops into Ukraine NATO! What is well stated in the article "Unrest in Ukraine as a reason for the NATO invasion." It is somehow alarming that the honest Russian authorities, who are waiting for an answer from the cunning State Department / NATO, do not slip once again and find themselves again with a "broken trough"!

[Kesha1980]

Yes, they (Canadians) often go there - so I won’t be surprised. They will create a "green zone" according to the Baghdad counterpart. In Kiev or Lvov, they will soon "zamaidan" (Poroshenko), so they will help. Frankly, Ukraine has long been at an impasse - Western curators will more actively move the processes in their direction.

[Romario_Argo]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in practice tied to the Foreign Intelligence Service
so for the protection of embassies and consulates and not only - in the structure of the Foreign Intelligence Service there is such a detachment of the Special Forces "Barrier"

[tralflot1832]

No panic, the longboat Ukraine is sinking. The most important thing is not to let the rats escape from the board. Our embassy will control it, if anything.

[Nexcom]

Not a launch, but, most likely, an American-made air mattress.

[tralflot1832]

You definitely won’t run away, our embassy will control it !!!

[aszzz888]

materials appeared on the page large American edition of The New York Times

even "large", even small - they all lie. Standard brainwashing of its public)).

[oldzek]

Yes, they have had it for a long time, as Hurst said there in response to a message from his reporter:
"... I will provide you with a war" and then a Yusov ship suddenly dies off the coast of Cuba.

[yuriy55]

It is clear that one cannot risk the lives and health of diplomats. The decision on their presence in Ukraine should be made by the president: are they needed there and in what capacity...
IMHO ... In this situation, Russia should limit to a minimum diplomatic contacts with the Nazi authorities and trade relations.

[Santa Fe]

The situation is being commented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The released release of the Russian Foreign Ministry says that the Russian embassy in Ukraine continues to work as before.

Never trust rumors. Wait for an official denial (Soviet folk proverb)

If such a closed and important structure as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacts so quickly to some regular rumor, then the rumor reveals some important and “sensitive” information. Which for the time being should have been kept secret.

Well, let's see if it's true or not.

[Denis812]

And yesterday I passed by the Russian Consulate in Krakow, there is a distinct smell of burning something for the whole area, including next to the consulate building.
It seems that The New York Times correspondents could emboss an article about "The smell of burning at the consulate of the Russian Federation - apparently the Russians in the consulate are burning documents, which may indicate preparations for the start of hostilities"
And if you are a normal sane person, it is absolutely clear that it just could. :)

[rotmistr60]

The New York Times, citing representatives of the Ukrainian authorities

The status is rising. If earlier it was enough to refer to a comment on the Internet, today it is to the representatives of the authorities. And the fact that these "representatives" lie at every step, even to themselves, is of no interest to anyone in the Western media. I wonder what the Deutsche Welle writes about this, which is very fond of political yellowness and often creates it itself?

[APASUS]

In my opinion, everything is going according to the rules of the information war. In a couple of days, satellite images of the missile installations will appear, where they are and when this picture was taken, it does not matter. ...........

[Orel]

These statements drew particular attention due to the fact that just the other day the US State Department recommended that its citizens leave Ukraine.

For negotiations to be successful, NATO needs to believe in the seriousness of our intentions. Therefore, if they issue warnings, then they have reason to believe that our statements, exercises and troops on the border are not a bluff. So, there is a possibility that there will be an opportunity to agree on something.

[ugol2]

I still do not fully understand why Russia is obliged to attack Ukraine? Why not Georgia? Or Finland?

[BAI]

Russia is allegedly going to carry out the evacuation of its diplomats from the Russian Embassy in the Ukrainian capital and the Consulate General in Lvov.

Why do we have diplomats there? And what are they doing there? The purpose and benefits of their stay in Ukraine?

[sen]

In particular, such materials appeared on the page of the major American publication The New York Times, citing representatives of the Ukrainian authorities. It was stated that Russia "is evacuating its diplomats from members of their families from Kiev and Lvov, which may indicate preparations for the start of hostilities."

They said on TV that foreign media said that only families were being evacuated, and added that all our diplomats were in place and were working normally.

[Olegi1]

Generally speaking, the news said that employees were leaving consulates. The Foreign Ministry stated that embassy is operating normally. So the diplomats could leave and the Foreign Ministry did not lie

[engineer74]

We need to play along a little with the "partners": announce the evacuation of diplomats from Washington and London
By the way, then we will get answers to security proposals faster ...

[AAK]

Now, for fun, you need to light some good fire in the Russian embassy in Kiev, well, there is garbage, fallen leaves ....., the main thing is that the smoke is bigger and thicker....

[AAK]

Now, for fun, we need to light a good fire in our embassy in Kiev, well, there is garbage there, last year's leaves ... the main thing is more and thicker smoke ....

[1536]

I understand that unbearable conditions have been created for our diplomats and their families in this country. And why, in this case, is our Foreign Ministry so bashfully justified? On the contrary, in this case it is necessary to strengthen the security of the embassy and consulates with the involvement of units of the Russian army. Or to withdraw the embassy altogether, which would be the most correct decision at present.