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Britain to reopen embassy in Kyiv, Boris Johnson announces


Britain is to reopen its Kyiv embassy, Boris Johnson has announced, more than two months after moving it out of the Ukrainian capital before the Russian invasion.

Since the embassy’s closure in February, the UK has retained a diplomatic presence in Ukraine, but has not been providing in-person consular assistance

The Foreign Office (FCDO) said at that time that the embassy was relocating temporarily and staff were operating from an embassy office in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

However, the embassy is expected to reopen early next month after Russian forces were pushed back or withdrawn from the region around Kyiv in the face of Ukrainian resistance.

The announcement, which the prime minister made at a press conference in India, also comes after he met the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, during an unannounced visit to Kyiv earlier this month.



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