An explosion from an artifact received in the mail injured a person at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid this Wednesday, it reports The world🇧🇷
The victim, who suffered only minor injuries, is an embassy employee and was treated at the Hospital Nuestra Señora de América, in the Spanish capital, police sources said. Ef. The explosive was in an envelope that the official received.
The letter, which arrived by regular mail, caused “a very small wound on the ring finger of the official’s right hand” after he opened the envelope in the garden of the embassy, Spanish government representative Mercedes González said in a statement. interview with the television station Telemadrid.
“The letter was addressed to the ambassador” Serhii Pohoreltsev, added Mercedes González.
Spanish police received the alert from the Ukrainian embassy around 1:15 p.m. local time (12:15 p.m. in Lisbon), and a security and anti-terrorism apparatus was activated, including experts in explosives and trained dogs inspecting the entire building. according to the same sources.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has asked the Spanish authorities to investigate this explosion.
In a social media publication quoted by international news agencies, a Ukrainian MFA spokesperson revealed that Minister Dmytro Kuleba “called on his Spanish counterpart to take urgent measures to investigate the attack on the Ukrainian diplomatic mission” in Madrid.
Ukraine’s MNO confirms that security forces and Spanish experts are on the scene and adds that instructions have been issued to urgently strengthen the security of all Ukrainian embassies abroad.
“The minister also stressed that whoever is behind this explosion will not be able to intimidate Ukrainian diplomats or stop their daily work to strengthen Ukraine and counter Russian aggression,” reads the same publication, which was released by news agencies. is quoted.
News updated at 16:33
Source: DN
