Soldiers of the Ukrainian National Guard next to the US Embassy in Kiev.


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Soldiers of the Ukrainian National Guard next to the US Embassy in Kiev.


U.S has started in Ukraine the usual measures to protect its citizens in a third country when it goes to war. Washington has announced the repatriation of the families of its diplomats in Ukraine at the risk of Russia invading that country, and has recommended its citizens to leave Ukraine. In addition, the US State Department has agreed to its embassy’s request, made on Saturday, to repatriate all non-essential personnel. The decision comes following the Secretary of State, tony blink, told CNN that “the entry of a single Russian soldier” into Ukraine “in an aggressive manner” would provoke an immediate, severe and unified response from the United States and Europe. Russia has already occupied 7% of the Ukrainian territory for almost eight years, in retaliation for the overthrow of the pro-Russian government in Kiev. The White House is studying sending between 1,000 and 5,000 Army soldiers to the Baltic States and Eastern Europe. Now, Vladimir Putin It has concentrated more than 100,000 soldiers on the borders of Ukraine, both in Russia itself and in Belarus, a country that is in practice a colony of Moscow. A Russian flotilla of ships for amphibious operations is heading from the Baltic to the Black Sea, in what might be part of a plan to open another front from Crimea, another part of the Ukrainian territory that Russia annexed in 2014. The constant concentration of troops by the Russian dictator has strengthened collaboration between the US and Kiev in recent days . After a week in which the White House had to deny the president himself, Joe Biden, when he stated that if Russia carried out only a minor incursion into Ukraine, the West’s response would be more moderate. Both Blinken’s statements and the possible dispatch of soldiers seem to indicate that The US is hardening its stance.