FALSE: China, Kazakhstan, and India recommended their citizens urgently leave the Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Odesa regions

Information is being spread online that allegedly China, Kazakhstan, and India strongly advised their citizens to urgently leave the Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Odesa regions. 

However, this is false. The embassies of China and India in Ukraine did not publish similar recommendations.

At the end of March, the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Ukraine recommended that citizens of their country consider the possibility of leaving the Odesa and Kharkiv regions due to the “increasing tension and unstable security situation”. At the same time, the Embassy urged all citizens not to ignore the air raid warning and to take shelter in a timely manner.

However, the embassies of China and India in Ukraine did not publish such recommendations. The Indian embassy last advised citizens to leave the country back in October 2022. The Chinese embassy did not call on citizens to leave Ukraine even on the eve of a full-scale invasion, but in October 2022 it published advice on how to evacuate from Ukraine. In the autumn of 2022, calls for evacuation were also heard in Chinese state media.

Recommendations to evacuate from Ukraine in 2024 did not appear on the official websites of the Foreign Ministry of India and China. These states’ calls to leave the Odesa, Kyiv, and Kharkiv regions were also not mentioned in the mass media.

By spreading such fakes, propagandists are trying to sow panic in different regions of Ukraine. Previously, we refuted fakes about the threat of the occupation of Sumy and the Russian offensive on Kyiv in the near future.