US President Joe Biden announced this Friday at a meeting with international leaders that
Vladimir Putin is determined to immediately invade Ukraine
.
The heads of government and state of France, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Poland, and Italy, as well as the president of the European Commission and the secretary general of NATO, were at the telematic meeting.
Spain was not invited.
The content of the announcement has been known minutes after both the European Union and the United Kingdom called on their citizens and staff to avoid Ukrainian territory.
"This is not an evacuation. For the time being, non-essential personnel have been offered the opportunity to leave the country. We continue to assess the situation as events evolve, in line with our responsibility towards our employees and in constant consultation and coordination. with all the Member States", he explains in European sources.
The ambassador of the European Union in Ukraine sent a message to all his subordinates on Friday in which he urged them to leave the country as soon as possible,
except for essential personnel, according to Politico.
The informal announcement comes just after the call organized by the US president with leaders of Western countries, including Emmanuel Macron, Boris Johnson and Olaf Scholz.
Participants also included NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
The meeting addressed in depth the reaction to a possible invasion
, with the battery of sanctions that all Western allies have already prepared.
Meanwhile, a few kilometers away but always in Brussels, at the headquarters of the Atlantic alliance, the NATO ambassadors were summoned this Friday afternoon for an unusual meeting in which to discuss the latest information on the Russian military escalation.
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