All remaining U.S. State Department personnel in Ukraine were evacuated to Poland on Monday, Bloomberg reports, in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin sending troops to two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine.
President Biden has warned for weeks that Putin planned on invading Ukraine, citing intelligence and the fact that Russia spent the last year moving troops to the border with Ukraine; it's estimated there are about 190,000 now in place. Late last month, the State Department reduced staff levels at the embassy in Kyiv and evacuated the families of employees, before temporarily relocating the embassy to Lyiv in western Ukraine.
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