"We're staying." The EU's reaction to Russian warnings

"We're staying"

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation yesterday appealed to diplomats, members of diplomatic missions and foreigners to leave Kiev. In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned that Moscow would continue to carry out systematic attacks on "military targets" in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities.

Today, Katarina Mathernova, a Slovak diplomat and lawyer who has been the European Union ambassador to Ukraine since September 2023, reacted strongly to Russia's warning.

Russia has a message for foreign diplomats in Kiev: leave or risk your lives. Our answer: We stay. The EU delegation stays. Threats against us will not stop Europe's support for Ukraine. They just remind us why this support matters! - wrote Katarina Mathernova.

The "military goals" mentioned in propaganda are actually civilian goals. In the last few days alone, these included the South Bridge, the North Bridge, a school, a medical facility, the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and inhabited blocks of flats. Air attacks by Russia, which uses, among others, Shahed jet drones, Gerber drones or Banderol missiles, the mayor of the capital of Ukraine, Vitali Klitschko, called "the tearing of Kiev."

Sunday, October 4, is another day accompanied by the constant sound of alarm sirens in Kiev.