Ukrainian embassies in several European countries have received packages with strange contents in recent days, some even containing explosives. “To date, we have 18 cases of threats in 12 countries,” Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said on Fridayordering the reinforcement of the security of the embassies.
This Wednesday, the head of security of the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid was thus slightly injured in the right hand by an “explosion” caused by the opening of a letter bomb destined for the Ukrainian ambassador in Spain, Serhii Pohoreltsev. The latter then implicitly accused Russia, with which Ukraine is at war, of being the source of the letter bomb he sent to him.
“We are well acquainted with the terrorist methods of the aggressor country,” he said on Spanish public television.
Several letter bombs intercepted in Spain
In a tweet published on Thursday, the Russian Embassy in Spain however, he condemned the sending of these bomb letters. “Face aux informations sur les paquets explosifs envoyés à l’ambassade d’Ukraine en Espagne et à des entités officielles espagnoles, nous déclarons que toute menace ou acte terroriste, de surcroît dirigés contre une mission diplomatique, sont totally condemnables”, at -ella write.
Other letters of similar content were also sent this Thursday to the United States embassy in Spain or to an arms company that manufactures grenade launchers donated by Madrid to kyiv at the beginning of the Russian invasion.
An “envelope with pyrotechnic material” and addressed “to the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez” was “detected and neutralized by the security services of the Presidency of the Government” on “November 24”, the Ministry of the Interior also indicated in a statement. Press release.
The Spanish justice system opened an investigation on Wednesday for alleged acts of “terrorism”. The Spanish Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, indicated at a press conference that “first indications” suggest that these letters were sent from Spain.
Fish eyes and droppings
Ukrainian embassies and consulates in six other European countries have also received suspicious packages in recent days. There they found “animal eyes”, said Oleg Nikolenko on Friday, who cited the embassies of Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia, Italy, Austria, or the general consulates in Naples (Italy), Krakow (Poland) and Brno (Czech Republic). ).
At the Vatican, the kyiv ambassador saw his residence vandalized with feces.
“When we got home we found that the walls and stairs, and even our locks, were stained with a foul-smelling substance. We immediately called the police, the special services,” explained Andrii Yurash, Ukraine’s ambassador to the Vatican.
No clear link has been established for the moment between these different events, investigations are ongoing.
Source: BFM TV
