Fox News learned about the decision of the State Department to evacuate the families of diplomats from Ukraine

Fox News: The US State Department called for the evacuation of families of diplomats from Ukraine from January 24

According to the journalist of the TV channel, the evacuation of the families of diplomats will begin on Monday, January 24. The corresponding order was given by the US State Department, he pointed out.

The US State Department ordered from Monday, January 24, to begin the evacuation of the families of diplomats in Ukraine. About this with reference to sources informed Fox News journalist Lucas Tomlinson on Twitter.

“The State Department is ordering the families of US Embassy employees in Ukraine to begin evacuating the country as early as Monday,” he wrote.

In the same time “RIA News” The US State Department reported that so far no official decisions have been made on the evacuation of American citizens from Ukraine. “If the United States decides to evacuate the families of diplomats from Ukraine, they should not wait for the evacuation to take place on government aircraft,” the department added.

Earlier, CNN correspondents Matthew Chance and Natasha Bertrand, citing sources, reported on the appeal of the US Embassy in Ukraine to the State Department with a request to allow non-essential personnel and their families to leave the country. At the same time, the representative of the State Department declaredthat it currently has “nothing to announce”, specifying that the agency is conducting thorough contingency planning, “as we always do in the event of a deterioration in the security situation.”