Ukraine’s foreign ministry denounced on Friday that at least six of Ukraine’s embassies in the European Union had received parcels with animal eyes on it and described it as a “well planned campaign of terror”.
This statement comes after an employee of the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid sustained minor injuries when it exploded on Wednesday. a letter bomb for the ambassador After the explosion, Kiev ordered to strengthen security in all its diplomatic missions.
Ukrainian embassies in Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia, Italy and Austria, as well as consulates in Naples, Krakow and Brno have all received the “bloody” parcels, said Oleg Nikolenko, spokesman for Ukraine’s foreign ministry.
The the packages were soaked in a liquidhe added in a statement, apparently referring to the blood.
“It’s a very strong signal,” said the Ukrainian consul in Naples, Kovalenko Maksym, who confirmed that his office received around 10:30 on Thursday two parcels containing fish eyes.
“We have reason to believe that a well-planned campaign of terror and intimidation against Ukrainian embassies and consulates,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in the statement.
“We will continue to work effectively for victory in Ukraine,” he added.
Accidents all over Europe
It was also learned that unknown persons vandalized the entrance to the residence of the Ukrainian ambassador in the Vatican and the Ukrainian embassy in Kazakhstan received a threat of an alleged mine attackalthough this has not been confirmed, Nikolenko added.
In Poland, a police spokesman in Warsaw confirmed by email that a package that “caused concern” for one of the employees arrived at the Ukrainian consulate in the Polish capital on Thursday.
The police department for the protection of diplomatic missions e “let’s quickly eliminate the danger”spokesman Sylwester Marczak added, without providing further details. Marczak said he was unaware of any such package arriving at the Ukrainian embassy in Warsaw.
In the Czech Republic, police said an X-ray scanner found no explosives in a checked packagebut he added that animal tissue was found inside which was subjected to laboratory tests.
The Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican, Andrii Yurash, said the entrance to his residence in Rome was damaged Thursday afternoon with what he believed to be animal feces.
The door of the apartment building and the stairs and walls of the entrance were “smeared with a dirty substance with an unpleasant smell,” he said Associated press. He specified that his wife and son were not at home at the time, and called the police.
Volodimir Zelenski’s Executive urged foreign governments to “guarantee” the protection of Ukrainian diplomatic missions.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24 and the armed conflict escalated into the largest in Europe since WWII. In recent weeks, Moscow has suffered several military setbacks.
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