NATO staff in Kyiv have been relocated to both Lviv, Ukraine situated in the western region of the country and the Belgian capital of Brussels, a NATO official confirmed to The Hill.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Saturday said if Russian President Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine, the move would be "an attack on democracy," and reiterated the U.S. and NATO would respond with strong and swift sanctions.
Top Ukrainian military officials were forced to take cover in a bomb shelter on Saturday after a shelling attack in eastern Ukraine on the front of the separatist conflict in the country.