President Joe Biden: “US citizens should leave Ukraine”

Status: 02/11/2022 06:34 a.m

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US President Biden has urged his compatriots to leave Ukraine quickly. There will be no evacuation action by the US Army in the event of war. He also warned Russia of a “world war”.

US President Joe Biden has urged US citizens in Ukraine to leave the country. “American citizens should leave Ukraine now,” Biden said in an interview with US broadcaster NBC. “We are dealing with one of the largest armies in the world here,” he said, referring to the accumulation of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine. “It’s a very different situation and things could get crazy fast.”

Biden warned his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about harming US citizens. He hopes that if Putin is “foolish enough” to invade Ukraine, he is “smart enough not to do anything that negatively impacts American citizens.”

“This is a world war”

However, Biden reiterated that under no circumstances would he send US troops to Ukraine, even to rescue US citizens in the event of a Russian invasion. “This is a world war,” he said. “When Americans and Russians start shooting at each other, we’re in a whole different world.”

Biden’s statements represent a renewed escalation after weeks of shuttle diplomacy between Washington, Moscow, Kiev and various European capitals. In January, the US government recommended that its citizens leave Ukraine independently because of the “unpredictable” situation on the ground. At the time, she had also ordered the departure of the relatives of US diplomats in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev and warned her citizens against traveling to Russia.