The State Department said the US embassy in Kyiv resumed operations on Wednesday.
The State Department said the US embassy in Kyiv resumed operations on Wednesday.
The United States has reopened its embassy in Ukraine three months after closing and withdrawing American diplomats from Kyiv. Russia’s invasionn February.
The US Embassy in Kyiv resumed operations on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, with diplomats returning to the capital on a permanent basis, temporarily relocating them to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv and neighboring Poland, the State Department said. had gone.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that “the Ukrainian people, with our security assistance, have defended their homeland to withstand the unconscious invasion of Russia, and as a result, the Stars and Stripes are flying over the embassy once again.” ”
Other Western countries are reopening their embassies.
US embassy staff began returning to Kyiv on a limited basis on 8 May to mark the anniversary of the World War II Victory in Europe Day, but the embassy itself remained closed.