The U.S. State Department has suspended its remaining presence in Ukraine after Russia’s attacks on Ukraine overnight, a U.S. official said.
The department issued a security alert to the U.S. diplomats remaining in the country, who had been operating in the western city of Lviv, that those operations would be suspended. This week, the diplomats began shuttling into Ukraine daily from Poland, where they spent the night, when the imminent threat of attack grew.
The State Department announced earlier this month that it would close its embassy in Kyiv and send most of its diplomats back to the U.S. A small group had been shifted to Lviv to carry out consular services and other embassy business.