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Ukraine tensions: US defends evacuating embassy as Zelensky urges calm

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Ukrainian soldiers have taken part in drills near Crimea

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the "imminent" threat of Russian military action in Ukraine justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kyiv.

His words came after Ukraine's president urged calm, saying the biggest enemy was panic.

More than a dozen countries have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine.

Moscow, with more than 100,000 troops near the border, has denied it plans to invade.

The Kremlin's top foreign policy advisor, Yuri Ushakov, has dismissed US warnings of an attack, saying "hysteria has reached its peak".

The crisis comes eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then, Ukraine's military has been locked in a war with Russian-backed rebels in eastern areas near Russia's borders.