For the evacuation of Ukrainian intelligence documents from Kiev, which was previously reported by the Washington Post, there are currently no grounds, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said. Interfax-Ukraine.
“Today, there are no grounds to take out now, to evacuate the documents you are talking about. If there are such grounds, the relevant authorities, the relevant structures will immediately work in the appropriate direction,” he said at a briefing after the meeting of the National Security and Defense Council in Kharkiv.
Four countries following the US recommended their citizens to leave Ukraine
The Washington Post at the end of January, citing officials, reported that Ukrainian intelligence had taken secret files and equipment from its headquarters in Kiev to safe places in the west of the country. The publication called such a step one of the outward signs of preparation for an escalation.
At the same time, as reported by sources in the Wall Street Journal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky considers the threat of invasion from Russia “unlikely.” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, in an interview with the Italian newspaper Repubblica, also said that there was no “momentary” risk of Russian aggression against Ukraine.