"For Security Reasons": US Sends Remaining Envoys In Ukraine To Poland

Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, "For security reasons, Department of State personnel currently in Lviv will spend the night in Poland."

The United States said Monday it is sending all of its diplomats in Ukraine to Poland out of security fears, hours after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops into two rebel-backed regions of Ukraine.

"For security reasons, Department of State personnel currently in Lviv will spend the night in Poland," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.

The move comes just over a week after the US relocated its embassy in Kyiv to Liviv, citing the "dramatic acceleration" in the build-up of Russia's forces on the border.