The Foreign Ministry issues a fresh call for Israelis in Ukraine to immediately leave the country, amid growing Western warnings of a looming Russian invasion.
The ministry makes the appeal after holding a situational assessment and following talks that director-general Alon Ushpiz held with unspecified figures at the Munich Security Conference. A Foreign Ministry statement also cites “the events in eastern Ukraine,” apparently referring to intensifying clashes there between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists.
“An eruption [of war] will be quick and severe,” the statement says.
The ministry says Israel’s ambassador in Kyiv, Michael Brodsky, and embassy staff will open the consular section tomorrow “to provide travel documents to citizens that require this.”
The Foreign Ministry also says it’s keeping tabs on the decisions by the US and Britain to move their embassies in Kyiv and to move to the city of Lviv, “with the aim of safeguarding the lies of the State of Israel’s envoys in Ukraine while providing a response to Israeli citizens.”
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