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People sleep on cots, at a reception center for displaced persons from Ukraine, at the Ukrainian-Polish border crossing in Korczowa, Poland, Saturday, March 5, 2022. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken toured the center on Saturday with Polish officials. (Olivier Douliery, Pool Photo via AP)

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Blinken hears harrowing tales from refugees fleeing Ukraine
By MATTHEW LEE - AP Diplomatic Writer
Sat,03/05/22-6:13AM , 91 Reads
KORCZOWA, Poland (AP) — U.S.
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A view of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the State Department plans to announce Saturday that virtually all American staff at the Kyiv embassy will be required to leave. The State Department would not comment. The department had earlier ordered families of U.S. embassy staffers in Kyiv to leave. But it had left it to the discretion of nonessential personnel if they wanted to depart. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)

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US evacuating most Ukraine embassy staff over invasion fears
By MATTHEW LEE - AP Diplomatic Writer
Fri,02/11/22-10:29PM , 100 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is evacuating almost all of the staff from its embassy in Kyiv as Western intelligence officials warn that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is increasingly imminent.
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Members of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, volunteer military units of the Armed Forces, train in a city park in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Dozens of civilians have been joining Ukraine's army reserves in recent weeks amid fears about Russian invasion. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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US draws down Ukraine embassy presence as war fears mount
By MATTHEW LEE - AP Diplomatic Writer
Sun,01/23/22-5:19PM , 104 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Sunday ordered the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine to leave the country amid heightened fears of a Russian invasion.
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Blinken to visit Ukraine as US-Russia tensions escalate
By MATTHEW LEE - AP Diplomatic Writer
Tue,01/18/22-6:03AM , 78 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Ukraine this week as tensions between the U.S.
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