Ukraine estimated on Friday that there were 17 cases in embassies in Europe that received letters with explosives or animal parts, mainly cow and pig eyes, the Ukrainian foreign minister said.
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy questioned, in an interview with CNN, who besides Russia would benefit from this type of action.
Dmytro Kuleba also stressed that Russia is “directly responsible” for these attacks, or the person responsible is “sympathetic to the Russian cause and trying to spread fear.”
“It all started with an explosion at the Ukrainian embassy in Spain (in Madrid),” recalled the Ukrainian foreign minister, analyzing that “what followed this explosion was stranger or even sicker.”
Kuleba had previously stressed that there is reason to believe that there is “a well-planned campaign of terror and intimidation against Ukrainian embassies and consulates.”
“Unable to stop Ukraine on the diplomatic front, [Moscovo] They are trying to intimidate us,” he stressed.
The Ukrainian government indicated that these types of packages arrived at the country’s embassies in Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia and Italy, although suspicious orders were also registered at the country’s consulates in Poland, the Czech Republic and Italy.
On Wednesday a man was seriously injured at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid due to the explosion of a device that was inside an envelope. Since then, the Spanish authorities have revealed the existence of five more letters with explosives, the last of which is in the United States embassy on Spanish soil.
The Portuguese authorities have reinforced the protection of the Ukrainian embassy in Lisbon and admit to having reassessed the level of threat in Portugal, after entities in Spain received booby-trapped letters, the Internal Security System (SSI) announced on Friday.
In response to a request for clarification from Lusa, following the news of the receipt of at least six booby-trapped letters in Spain, the SSI confirmed that the Anti-Terrorist Coordination Unit (UCAT), which operates within the framework of the Internal Security System , “is closely monitoring the situation” and that it is in “close coordination with its Spanish, European and international partners”.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, revealed this Friday to Lusa that indications were given to the Portuguese embassies to reinforce care in receiving mail, noting that the national diplomatic missions “are attentive”.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people -more than six million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million to European countries-, according to the most recent data. of the UN, which catalogs this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by the wider international community, which has responded by sending arms to Ukraine and imposing them on Russia in political and economic sanctions.
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war, which this Saturday entered its day 282, 6,655 civilian deaths and 10,368 wounded, stressing that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
