Western leaders dismissed the Russian move as an attempt to deter Ukraine's allies from providing further support to Kyiv.
The U.S. and some other Western embassies in Kyiv said that they would stay closed Wednesday for security reasons, with the American delegation saying it had received a warning of a potentially significant Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital.Joe Biden's decision
The Italian and Greek embassies also shut to the public for the day, but the U.K. government said that its embassy remained open. Russian President Vladimir Putin subsequently lowered the threshold for using his nuclear arsenal, with the "Ukrainian long-range strikes against military objects within Russia's rear are crucial for degrading Russian military capabilities throughout the theater," it said.
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