Just three days after the State Department issued a travel warning for Ukraine

Just three days after the State Department issued a travel warning for Ukraine, it began promoting a campaign urging Americans to visit the country, prompting confusion and concern from some foreign policy observers.The State Department issued a Ukraine travel warning on March 21 warning "U.S. citizens to defer all non-essential travel to Ukraine and to defer all travel to the Crimean Peninsula and eastern regions of Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Lugansk due to the presence of Russian military forces in the Crimean Peninsula, and in Russia near the Ukrainian border."Three days after that warning was issued the State Department's official Twitterfeed disseminated an official video promoting travel to Ukraine and arguing that all is safe for tourists.

"Disinformation: Kyiv is a burned out battle ground filled with rampaging lawless groups," wrote a caption on the video, which was posted by the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. "Fact: The effects of the Maidan confrontation are extremely localized, relegated to three or four streets in the center of the city."
The video struck some foreign policy observers as confusing given the sharp contrast between the two messages.State Department Spokeswoman Marie Harf told the Free Beacon that the video is an effort to bat "Kremlin propaganda" that aims to distort the situation in Ukraine and mislead the international munity. Before Mary Sue Stegehuis, a teacher in Grand Rapids, Mich., traveled to Tanzania last summer to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, she bought trip insurance a policy that provided for emergency medical evacuation.

A helicopter plucked her off the mountain and took her to a hospital in Nairobi.After she was treated by an American board-certified cardiologist who determined that all was well, she was flown back to resume the climb. The insurance covered the $11,500 in evacuation costs, along with $5,000 for medical services."It was a huge benefit that the insurance pany specializes in dealing with these logistics," says Ms. Stegehuis, age 57.Travel insurance has long been part of travel planning. But with more people participating in adventure trips and heading for increasingly remote destinations, policies today offer more options and are more plicated than ever before.