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The White House has remained ambiguous on how many Americans are in Ukraine, but repeatedly warned Friday that all U.S. citizens need to leave the country within the next 24 to 48 hours, as the threat of a Russian invasion continues to grow.
“If you stay, you are assuming risk with no guarantee that there will be any other opportunity to leave and there is no prospect of [a] U.S. military evacuation in the event of a Russian invasion,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. “If a Russian attack on Ukraine proceeds, it is likely to begin with aerial bombing and missile attacks that could obviously kill civilians without regard to their nationality.”
“A subsequent ground invasion would involve the onslaught of a massive force with virtually no notice,” he continued. “No one would be able to count on air or rail or road departures once military action got underway.”
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan calls on a reporter during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL WARNS RUSSIA HAS 48 HOURS TO EXPLAIN MILITARY ACTIVITIES ON BORDER
The Biden administration has remained tight-lipped on the number of Americans registered in Ukraine and Sullivan again directed reporters’ questions to the State Department for clarification.
The State Department did not answer Fox News Digital’s questions and instead pointed to a January briefing when press secretary Ned Price said, “We typically don’t provide numbers of U.S. citizens living in or traveling to another country.”
Price said that estimates they received from the embassy in October suggested there were anywhere between 6,000 – 16,000 U.S. citizens in Ukraine, including American tourists and visitors.
The administration has said it is too difficult to provide concrete figures on the number of Americans in another country because not everyone registers with the embassy…
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