{"id":249870,"date":"2022-02-21T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249870"},"modified":"2022-02-23T08:35:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T08:35:48","slug":"americans-in-russia-told-to-prepare-to-flee-country-without-help-from-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249870","title":{"rendered":"Americans in Russia told to prepare to flee country without help from US"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bruce Golding \u2013 New York Post Feb 20, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Americans living in Russia were warned Sunday to be ready to evacuate without the US government\u2019s help.<\/p>\n<p>In an online \u201cSecurity Alert,\u201d the US Embassy in Moscow cited the threat of attacks in \u201cmajor urban areas\u201d in the country and along its border with Ukraine, where Russian troops are massed for what American officials say is a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/20\/russian-commanders-reportedly-given-orders-to-invade-ukraine\/\">looming invasion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to media sources, there have been threats of attacks against shopping centers, railway and metro stations, and other public gathering places in major urban areas, including Moscow and St. Petersburg as well as in areas of heightened tension along the Russian border with Ukraine,\u201d the embassy said.<\/p>\n<p>It recommended actions including, \u201cAvoid crowds,\u201d \u201cBe aware of your surroundings\u201d and \u201cReview your personal security plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave evacuation plans that do not rely on U.S. government assistance,\u201d the embassy wrote on its<a href=\"https:\/\/ru.usembassy.gov\/security-alert-u-s-mission-russia-february-20-2022\/\"> Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The warning came less than a month after the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/24\/americans-in-ukraine-should-leave-now-no-evacuation-in-works-wh\/\">urged Americans to leave Ukraine<\/a>, saying the US wouldn\u2019t attempt a repeat of last year\u2019s chaotic and deadly evacuation of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/11\/us-expects-russia-to-invade-ukraine-next-week-report\/\">doubled down<\/a> on that warning Feb. 11, saying that \u201cthere is no prospect of a US military evacuation in the event of a Russian invasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs publicly questioned whether the US had shared its information about potential attacks with Russia, according to Reuters, which first reported the embassy\u2019s warning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if not, how is one to understand all this?\u201d ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/20\/americans-in-russia-told-to-prepare-to-flee-country-without-help-from-us\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Embassy in Moscow urges Americans to be prepared to leave Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249871,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249870\/revisions\/249871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}