State Department orders families of U.S. embassy personnel in Ukraine to begin evacuating the country as soon as Monday: U.S. officials liveuamap.com/en/2022/22-jan… via @LucasFoxNews
Controversial reports on departure. Anyway evacuation of families is precautionary measure. No imminent danger
Briefing after meeting of National Security Council of Ukraine. Members of NSDC speaking on their topics, in short: no imminent threat of attack, in case of attack everything is ready. No issues with energy sector: enough coal, gas
Most concerning issues - panic at financial markets, due to the news. But it is also being contained, with the help of partners (including EU's 1.2B, Canada's help and other)
On question about Belarusian hackers connected to attack on 13-14th Jan, Secretary Danilov says that at this point it is very hard to distinguish Belarusian and Russian governments, as they acts as one. "in fact they are one government"
Could be ADS-B spoofing event, as Boeing 747-428(BCF) that delivered weapons to Ukraine, at Flightradar showing over Belarus flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/…
Lavrov to @SecBlinken: I heard one of your last statements when you said you do not expect a breakthrough at these negotiations. We do not expect a breakthrough either. What we do expect is complete answers to our proposals liveuamap.com/en/2022/21-jan… via @EenaRuffini