On the night of 23-24 January, the US embassy in Ukraine reported that the State Department had decided to voluntarily leave its civil servants from the embassy in Kiev
They were ordered to leave Ukraine due to the “continuing threat of Russian military action”. Earlier, the State Department warned that the USA would not be able to evacuate its citizens in case of a “Russian invasion”.
They also urged US citizens in Ukraine “to consider leaving the country now using commercial or other private transport”.
People are already writing in the comments in the style of “repeating history with Afghanistan”