THE US Embassy successful Kyiv has unopen down arsenic Ukraine braces for a immense Russian airstrike.
It comes a time aft Ukraine utilized US-supplied ATACMS missiles to onslaught Russian territory for the archetypal clip - and Moscow warned it would "react accordingly".
The US Embassy said: "Out of an abundance of caution, the embassy volition beryllium closed, and embassy employees are being instructed to structure successful place."
It "recommends US citizens beryllium prepared to instantly structure successful the lawsuit an aerial alert is announced".
The UK authorities is besides examining the information concern for Brit diplomats successful Kyiv "incredibly closely".
Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned that Moscow volition respond to Ukraine's strikes with US-made weapons heavy into Russia.
And arsenic the struggle reached its 1,000th time connected Tuesday, Vlad signed a caller doctrine to little the barroom for launching a atomic strike.
Almost simultaneously, Ukrainian media reported the archetypal usage of American-made ATACMS missiles connected Russian territory.
Ukraine’s subject did not remark connected the usage of the weapons - but took work for a blaze astatine a weapons depot successful the metropolis of Karachev, Bryansk, 70 miles implicit the border.
The Kremlin claimed Ukraine had fired six ATACMS - claiming they caused nary superior damage.
The missiles - which person a scope of 186 miles and are hard to intercept - springiness Kyiv the quality to onslaught deeper into Russia.
On Tuesday, Sir Keir Starmer said Britain will not beryllium cowed by Putin’s irresponsible atomic rhetoric.
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