Minister Hoekstra of Foreign Affairs calls on all Dutch people to leave Ukraine. The security situation was already worrying, and has deteriorated further in recent days. Hoekstra is now taking this step in consultation with the various allies and is calling on all Dutch people to leave Ukraine. Read here the travel advice for Ukraine. Most embassy personnel will also leave Ukraine. 

There will be a minimum occupancy. From the meeting point in Lviv, the embassy can provide emergency assistance such as emergency visas and laissez-passers. The travel advice for Ukraine has gone to red: that means it is too dangerous to travel to the country. All travel is discouraged, and Dutch people are advised to leave while commercial flights are still available. 

Ukraine promised on Sunday to keep its airspace open to international traffic, despite heightened tensions with neighboring Russia. The Ukrainian president previously called for calm, saying that "panic is now the worst enemy". Meanwhile, more and more countries are calling on their citizens to leave the country. The US also called on US staff from the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine on Saturday to leave the country. Hundreds of OSCE international observers have been stationed in Ukraine since March 2014.