Kyiv stresses calm even as U.S. warns Russian invasion could be imminent.
, which it now says maybe increasingly imminent. It is evacuating most staff from its embassy in Kyiv and urging its citizens to leave immediately.
The Kyiv-based DJ said she and her husband were mulling relocating abroad, but the only concrete preparations they have made is paperwork for their dog.massed more than 100,000 troops on Ukraine's borders “Today the best friend for enemies is panic in our country and all this information that helps only for panic, doesn’t help us,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on Saturday as he oversaw security drills in the country's south.
After the U.S. announced its embassy evacuation on Saturday, however, he made his own plans to leave the capital.
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