EU Ambassador to Ukraine Katarina Mathernova on Monday rejected Moscow’s renewed calls for foreign diplomats and citizens to leave Kyiv, saying Western missions will remain in the Ukrainian capital despite escalating Russian threats of further strikes. Writing on Facebook, Mathernova described a recent statement from Russia’s Foreign Ministry urging foreigners to leave Kyiv as a “masterpiece of hypocrisy,” sharply criticising what she called Moscow’s attempt to weaponise fear amid its ongoing war against Ukraine.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “A regime that has spent years bombing residential buildings, museums, maternity wards, schools and power stations now suddenly speaks the language of international humanitarian law and the Geneva conventions,” she said. “The same regime that launches nightly missile and drone attacks on civilians now warns others to stay away.” Mathernova said Russia’s messaging was aimed at spreading panic, but stressed it would not succeed. “The EU is not going anywhere. We are staying in Kyiv. We are staying with Ukraine,” she said. “Threats against diplomats and international organisations are not a sign of strength. They are a sign of desperation.” She added that increasingly aggressive rhetoric from the Kremlin only underscores Russia’s failure to break Ukraine’s resilience or weaken international support for Kyiv.