Several embassies of Western countries have announced temporary closures in the Ukrainian capital. From Ukraine, they accuse that there is an “information attack” on the part of Russia.
The government of Ukraine accused Russia spreading false messages about a major attack on kyiv and other cities .
As the country’s military intelligence agency stated in a Telegram post, The Kremlin carries out a “massive informational and psychological attack” .
These declarations are positioned on the same day that Several Western embassies have announced their temporary closure .
That of USA in kyiv is one of them .
Its authorities denounced in a release that the decision has been made after receiving “precise information about a possible major airstrike on November 20” .
“As a precautionary measure, the embassy will be closed and embassy employees have been instructed to stay at home,” they added.
Those from Italy and Greece in Kyiv announced that their doors would be temporarily closed during the day this Wednesday.
The one in Spain also announced a temporary closure following a “possible major airstrike” in the Ukrainian capital.
However, according to the information retrieved by the BBC , the latter has reopened its doors .
Why Ukraine accuses Russia of carrying out a “psychological attack”
From the agency under the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, they stated that: on social networks, messages are circulating about “the threat of a particularly massive bomb and missile attack”. against Ukrainian cities.
“We ask you to rely only on information from official sources” they declared to the organization, according to information retrieved by the aforementioned media.
At the same time, they reported that Russia uses “measures of intimidation and psychological pressure on society” .
While calling on the population not to panic, they stressed that airstrikes should not be ignored .
This situation only occurs a day after Ukraine held its first stroke with long-range American missiles against Russian territory .
This offensive was directed against a military installation and, according to Russian authorities, there were no casualties.
On the same day of the attack, the president Vladimir Putin updated the nuclear doctrine from Russia .
This document is the one that establishes the conditions under which they might decide to use their nuclear weapons .
The recent update indicates that Moscow will consider aggression by any non-nuclear-weapon state (such as Ukraine), but with the participation of a nuclear-armed country (such as the United States), as a joint attack on Russia. .
It is good to remember that Russian troops began invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 .
For more than two and a half years that the war raged, The military and economic aid packages kyiv received from its Western allies were crucial so that his forces could counter the offensive.
Source: Latercera
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