More than 30 countries recommended their citizens to leave Ukraine

Amid reports of an allegedly planned Russian invasion and rising tensions around Ukraine, more states are urging their citizens to leave the country and refrain from traveling there.

At least 34 states have advised their citizens to leave Ukraine or cancel planned trips to the country amid fears of a possible Russian invasion.

On the morning of February 13, the Mexican Foreign Ministry made such an appeal . The agency said in a statement that Mexicans who want to visit Ukraine for tourism or business purposes should abandon their plans “because of the growing risk of staying there without the possibility of leaving,” and Mexican citizens who live in Ukraine and want to leave it should use "still accessible commercial routes".

A day earlier, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio recommended that Italians return to their homeland in commercial vehicles and postpone trips to Ukraine. In addition, the authorities decided to recall the non-essential staff of the embassy in Kyiv to Italy. The diplomatic mission will continue to work normally, he assured.

Sweden decided to tighten recommendations against trips to Ukraine "due to changes in the security situation." A similar recommendation was published by the authorities of Norway, Germany, Belgium, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Slovenia.

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