Ukraine official: No reason to evacuate. "Americans are safer in Kyiv than they are in LA"

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'Americans are safer in Kiev than LA': Ukraine president blasts Biden for evacuating US citizens and encouraging his country to democratize - 'but being the first to leave when Russia turns up temperature'

• A source close with Volodymyr Zelensky said the Ukrainian president doesn't feel there is an 'imminent threat' to Kiev as Russia poises itself to invade

• The source also said: 'Quite frankly these Americans are safer in Kiev than they are in Los Angeles … or any other crime-ridden city in the U.S.,' in a shot at spiking U.S. crime rates

• The administration pulled U.S. embassy personnel and their families from Ukraine over the weekend

• The State Department told private American citizens still in Ukraine to find their own way out because 'the
US government will not be in a position to evacuate U.S. citizens' should Russia invade

• A new report reveals Joe Biden is finalizing his plans to deploy U.S. forces to Eastern Europe

• The Ukraine Foreign Ministry's spokesperson criticized the U.S. State Department's decision to withdraw some embassy staff and families in a Monday morning Twitter post and called it 'premature'

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