The U.S. Embassy in Minsk, Belarus, has issued a new advisory for U.S. citizens in the country to get out as soon as possible as neighboring NATO-allied nations have begun cutting off contact with the Russian-allied eastern European state.
In a Monday alert, the embassy warned that Lithuania, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), recently sealed off two of its border crossing points with Belarus. The embassy said four remaining Lithuanian-Belarusian border crossings remained open but that conditions could change. The U.S. embassy further warned that fellow NATO allies like Poland and Latvia might also shut off border access with Belarus, leaving U.S. citizens with few options to leave the country.
