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The Russian Ambassador to Bucharest, Vladimir Lipaev, during a meeting he was required to have with officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, urged Romania "to treat with the utmost seriousness the recommendation to evacuate their diplomatic staff from the Ukrainian capital, according to News.ro .  In a Facebook post, the Russian Embassy announced imminent “systemic strikes planned by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on enterprises of the Ukrainian military and industrial complex, decision-making centres and command posts in Kyiv, in response to the strikes by the armed formations of the Kyiv regime on the civilian population in Russia." Nearly 50 countries condemned, in a joint statement at the United Nations on May 28, what they described as Russian threats against embassies in Ukraine. According to the message conveyed to the Romanian officials, the ambassador "urged Romanian diplomats not to follow the frivolous approach of other European capitals, not to unnecessarily expose the lives and health of their own citizens to danger and to treat with the utmost seriousness the recommendation to evacuate their diplomatic personnel from the Ukrainian capital." Russia also demanded that Romania officially condemn the Ukrainian attack on a college in Starobilsk (Starobelsk) on the territory of the Russian-occupied region of Lugansk last week, accusing Romanian diplomats of "not daring to condemn the bloody terrorist attack," according to the message. Russia also asked Romania to subsequently withdraw the support it provides to Ukraine.