Ukraine (Reuters) - Russia has started evacuating diplomatic staff from all of its missions in Ukraine, TASS news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a representative of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv.

The embassy as well as the consulate general in Odessa were seen on Wednesday with Russian flags taken down.

"Several cars left the territory of the consulate in the morning," a member of the Ukrainian National Guard who was on duty near the Russian consulate in Odessa told Reuters.

Russia's foreign ministry announced an evacuation of diplomatic staff from Ukraine for what it called safety reasons on Tuesday, a day after President Vladimir Putin recognised independence of two breakaway regions in Ukraine's east and ordered Russian troops "to keep peace" there, while massing military along Ukrainian borders.

The United States and its allies unveiled more sanctions against Russia on Wednesday over its recognition of the two separatist areas, while making clear they were keeping tougher measures in reserve in case of a full-scale invasion by Moscow.

Last week a video showing smoke rising from the Russian Embassy's chimney circulated online. An employee said that staff had burnt documents before departure, TASS quoted him as saying on Wednesday.

"This is an ordinary procedure. In cases like we have now there is a set of measures that should be taken for security reasons," the employee said, according to TASS.

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry requested President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to break off diplomatic ties with Russia in response the recognition of independence of separatist-held regions.

Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he was weighing the request.

(Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova in Kyiv, Iryna Nazarchuk in Odessa, Alexander Marrow in Moscow; Editing by Andrew Osborn and Mark Heinrich)

SOURCE: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/europe/top-stories/russia-evacuates-diplomats-from-ukraine-takes-down-mission-flags/ar-AAUd4UG

It's getting worst.

Well
It has gone beyond table talk now!
It is a a war zone right in the backyard of Russia.
Russian backyard o

When

Brace yourself... Shít is real

Shits are about to pour everywhere

Vasically:
It's getting worst.

Nothing can beat a nation having a president that can understand the issues at hand and work to make sure there is a practical solution.
That is why I like Theresa May!

Who cares world war should start oh so that biafra will use this opportunity and breakout from Nigeria

May God help us

such a myopic mind

heniford2:
Who cares world war should start oh so that biafra will use this opportunity and breakout from Nigeria

Ahmback:
such a myopic mind

such a creative mind yet you have nothing to show for it silly imbecil

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heniford2:
Who cares world war should start oh so that biafra will use this opportunity and breakout from Nigeria

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heniford2:
such a creative mind yet you have nothing to show for it silly imbecil

You're a father for christsake! Act it!

Unnecessary war

Raspberries:
You're a father for christsake! Act it!

and so what?? how many account do you have damn it, so i should not express myself again

heniford2:
and so what?? how many account do you have damn it, so i should not express myself again

Express yourself like a father! A father would never want war... Think of the many innocents who would die!!!

Those adorable baby oyibos...

Face reality... Biafra ain't real... You are a Nigerian...

Why do you seek five landlocked states? It puzzles me

Vasically:
It's getting worst.

Not getting any worst are you even thinking of the lives that will lost and properties as well. So many people will be displaced and all of that. C'mon let's just pray or even hope they stop this shit cos it ain't getting funny again. Putin is just looking for who to drag power with,he will soon see what he is looking for.

Raspberries:
Express yourself like a father! A father would never want war... Think of the many innocents who would die!!!

Those adorable baby oyibos...

Face reality... Biafra ain't real... You are a Nigerian...

Why do you seek five landlocked states? It puzzles me

without war there is no peace anywhere,

Biafra is Real we want it because we need it, A father will never want his children to be slaves so he most stand tall for freedom,

Why this fuse on parenting fatherhood hey! And eastern states are not lockland come out from that illusion