Russia threatens more Kyiv strikes and tells foreign nationals to leave

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Source: BBC

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Russia has threatened to launch a fresh wave of "systematic strikes" against Kyiv, days after carrying out one of its largest attacks on the Ukrainian capital since the start of the war. The new strikes will target "decision-making centres and command posts", alongside drone manufacturing facilities in the city, Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement.

Moscow has called for foreign nationals and diplomats to leave Kyiv "as soon as possible" and warned citizens to stay away from administrative and military buildings. Ukraine said Russia's threats were "nothing short of shameless blackmail" and urged allies to increase pressure on Moscow.

With its warning to foreign nationals, Moscow is "effectively admitting that its shelling is aimed, among other things, at intimidating the foreign diplomatic corps", the statement continued.

It said Russian strikes on Kyiv "have not ceased for virtually a single week" since the start of the war, and the overall security threat posed by Moscow "remains the same as in previous years or months".

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e22n55zn4o

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1. Duplicate

This was posted 3 hours ago: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143670299

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2. Yours is specific to the U.S.

BBC's report is more overarching and not limited to U.S. nationals, who aren't the only foreigners there.

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3. Locking LBN dupe.

Please continue discussion in this earlier thread.

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4. Unlocked.

The earlier thread was self-deleted, making this one no longer a LBN dupe. So the remedy is to unlock this one.

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5. I am REALLY glad that my nephew has moved out of Kyiv!!

He came home a couple of months ago. He is now in France taking an intensive French language course. Several years ago, he worked for the US Embassy in Tunis, and expected to get by fine with his Arabic. He had studied Arabic in college, and can both speak and write it. He was dismayed when he got to Tunis and found that, according to him, all anyone would speak was French, and there was hardly anyone who would speak in Arabic, whether to him or even to each other.

I am not aware of any plans he has to return to Tunis, but Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon and much of Western Africa does speak French. He has been stationed in northern Nigeria before, so he is not a stranger to the area, diverse though it may be. He did learn some Ukrainian while he was there, but not enough to be fully conversational, and at any rate, I doubt he has any immediate plans to return.