A representative of the People's Police of the Lugansk People's Republic shows a seized home-made strike drone which was used by Ukrainian government troops.
The State Department recommended Sunday that all U.S. citizens leave the country immediately because of Russia's military build up on the border.
A senior State Department official said on a call with reporters that the US should consider departing now using commercial or private transportation.
The deployment of Russian forces and equipment to its border with Ukraine has been watched by the West for months.
The annexation of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea by Russia triggered an international uproar and led to a series of sanctions against Moscow. Russia was removed from the Group of 8, or G-8, as a result of the seizure of Crimea.
The official said that the security conditions along the Ukrainian border and in Russian-occupied Crimea and in Russia-controlled eastern Ukraine are unpredictable and can get worse with little notice.
A second senior State Department official said that they were able to provide the exact number of U.S. citizens in Ukraine.
The official said that U.S. citizens don't have to register their travel to a foreign country.
The State Department ordered eligible family members of personnel at the embassy in Kyiv to leave the country because of the security situation.
The Secretary of State and the Russian Foreign Minister will meet in Switzerland in January of 2022.
Less than two days after face-to-face talks between Moscow and Washington, there is a new revelation.
The Secretary of State told his Russian counterpart on Friday that the Kremlin could defusing tensions and concerns about a potential invasion by removing a deployment of 100,000 troops and equipment away from Ukraine's borders.
Western officials, including President Joe Biden, have said they expect Moscow to launch an incursion into Ukraine. Russia could attack within a month, according to U.S. intelligence.
The U.S. is not sure if Russia is not preparing for an invasion of its neighbor.
If Russia wants to convince the world that it has no aggressive intent toward Ukraine, it would be a good place to start is by de-escalating the situation.
All of our allies and partners are equally committed to making sure we are doing everything possible to make clear to Russia that there will be a swift, severe and united response to any form of aggression by Russia directed to Ukraine.
Russian officials have called on the U.S. to stop the expansion of NATO.
Russia wants the U.S. to not establish military bases in the territories of former Soviet states that are not already members of NATO.
NATO states that an attack on one member country is considered to be an attack on all of them, and that has been the case since 2002.
The terms of member entry with the Kremlin would not be negotiated by the U.S. and the NATO alliance, according to Tony Blinken.
We need ironclad, waterproof, bulletproof guarantees. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters during a January 10 press conference that they were not assurances, but guarantees.
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