The State Department announced on Monday that U.S. Embassy operations, already stripped down, are being moved post-haste out of Kiev entirely, and into the Western city of Lviv, on the supposed grounds of protecting U.S. citizens and officials from the “distinct possibility, perhaps more real than ever before, that Russia may decide to proceed with military action…. an invasion, as we have said, could begin at any time.”
This absurd statement led at the briefing to such questions to spokesman Ned Price as, was he “implying that if the Russians do come into Kyiv they can’t be trusted to respect diplomats? Even in the Second World War, diplomats stayed in Berlin, for example. Is there a specific reason you have to believe that those diplomats would face harm?”
