The United States said diplomacy could still resolve a standoff with Moscow over Ukraine. | Reuters
Scholz would make clear the West was united and any aggression would prompt “painful, considerable sanctions” on Russia, the source said.
A senior Biden administration official said the call was substantive but that there was no fundamental change. Washington regards many of the proposals as non-starters but has pushed the Kremlin to discuss them jointly with Washington and its European allies.Washington, along with its Western allies and many other countries, ordered most of its embassy staff on Saturday to leave Ukraine immediately due to the threat of an invasion.
U.S. staff at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe began leaving https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-staff-osce-begins-pullout-donetsk-eastern-ukraine-2022-02-13 by car from the rebel-held city of Donetsk in east Ukraine on Sunday, a Reuters witness said. An adviser in Ukraine’s presidency, Mykhailo Podolyak, said that regardless of what airlines chose to do Kyiv had no plans to close its airspace as such a move would resemble “a kind of partial blockade”.