The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv will remain open, despite warnings from Russia that diplomats and foreign nationals should leave Ukraine before escalating attacks.
“The U.S. Embassy is open,” the mission wrote in a May 28 post on X. “There are no changes to our operations, and reports otherwise are false.”
It added that the U.S. State Department “has no higher priority than the safety and security of Americans and regularly reviews the security posture of Embassy Kyiv.”
“We reiterate our message that Americans should not travel to Ukraine for any reason due to the armed conflict,” it said.
The remarks follow earlier claims from a European Union diplomat that U.S. officials had left the mission in Kyiv—comments which have since been corrected….