US embassy in Kyiv closes over anticipated air attack
Kyiv is bracing for more Russian strikes.
In short:
The US embassy in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, has shut after it was warned of an anticipated air attack.
Embassy employees were told to prepare to take shelter in the event of an attack, the US Department of State Consular Affars said.
The warning comes a day after Russia claimed Ukraine used US ATACMS missiles to strike Russian territory.
The US embassy in Kyiv has closed after receiving information of a "potential significant air attack", the US Department of State Consular Affairs says.
"Out of an abundance of caution, the embassy will be closed, and embassy employees are being instructed to shelter in place," the department said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The US Embassy recommends US citizens be prepared to immediately shelter in the event an air alert is announced."
The warning comes a day after Russia claimed Ukraine used US ATACMS missiles to strike Russian territory on the Ukraine war's 1,000th day.
On Monday, US President Joe Biden granted Ukraine permission from the outgoing administration to use US-supplied long-range missiles to strike Russian targets.
Russia had been warning the West for months that if Washington allowed Ukraine to fire US, British and French missiles deep into Russia, Moscow would consider those NATO members to be directly involved in the Ukraine war.
On Tuesday, Mr Putin lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a broader range of conventional attacks.
Following the claim that Ukraine had fired US-supplied missiles, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the attack showed Western countries wanted to "escalate" the conflict.
"We will be taking this as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia. And we will react accordingly," Mr Lavrov told a press conference at the G20 summit in Brazil.
Biden approves anti-personnel mines for Ukraine
On Wednesday, Mr Biden approved the provision of anti-personnel land mines to Ukraine, a US official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The US expects Ukraine to use the mines in its own territory, though it has committed not to use them in areas populated with its own civilians, the official said.
Joe Biden approved the provision of anti-personnel land mines to Ukraine, a US official says.
The office of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian defence ministry, the Russian defence ministry and the Kremlin did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
The US has provided Ukraine with anti-tank mines throughout its war with Russia, but the addition of anti-personnel mines aims at blunting the advance of Russian ground troops, the official added.
The US mines differ from Russia's as they are "non-persistent" and become inert after a preset period, the official said.
They require a battery to detonate and will not explode once the battery runs out.
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