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EurActiv (25 January 2022)

While Ukraine is bracing for the worst, a possible Russian invasion, EU diplomats on Monday (24 January) regretted the US decision to evacuate diplomats’ families from Kyiv could be interpreted as a sign that the West accepts such a scenario.

“Everything is under control, there is no reason to panic”, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy assured after a meeting of the country’s National Security and Defence Council in Kyiv on Monday (24 January).

It echoed comments by Ukrainian and Western officials, which tried to project a semblance of normality, stressing the fact that the invasion had started back in 2014, when Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and kickstarted a violent separatist uprising in the Donbas region in the east.

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