MOSCOW, January 22/ Sputnik Radio. The German authorities are preparing a plan to evacuate the families of diplomats from the territory of Ukraine in case of escalation of tension, the Bild newspaper reports.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is developing an evacuation plan for relatives of employees of the German Embassy in Ukraine... They should be taken out of the country in case of further deterioration of the situation," RIA Novosti reports.
On Saturday afternoon, Fox News reported that the US State Department ordered the evacuation of the families of its diplomats from Kiev from January 24. Later, the American Foreign Ministry denied this information.
Earlier, Sputnik radio reported that the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called Bloomberg an "information dump" after another throw-in about the "Russian invasion" of Ukraine.