Russian diplomat Sergei Andreev was attacked while laying flowers at a war memorial cemetery for Soviet soldiers in Warsaw.
TASS correspondent reports from the scene.
The Russian ambassador, his wife and a group of diplomats were doused with red paint and prevented from making their way to the memorial.
Police arrived on the scene a few minutes later and surrounded the diplomats and helped them to their car.
The ambassador arrived at the cemetery in a diplomatic car carrying a Russian flag.
After getting out of the car, he was surrounded by an aggressive crowd that had previously gathered at the memorial site with Ukrainian flags, red-painted sheets and anti-Russian slogans.
There were no police on the square at that moment. The diplomats were able to take a few dozen steps, but the crowd did not allow them to go any further.
Others arriving at the cemetery with flowers were shouting at the crowd that they had allegedly no right to pay tribute to the soldiers and celebrate Victory Day.
According to TASS, the Russian ambassador said he and Russian diplomats were not seriously injured in the incident.
“We will make a formal protest”, – he said, commenting on the attack on the diplomats who had come to lay flowers at the memorial.
According to Andreev, the authorities had been notified of the embassy’s plans to lay flowers.
“When they did not recommend us to hold a wider event, we met them halfway, we did not escalate. It would seem that there was very little left to do. What was it worth to ensure basic order? In the end, it turned out that the police had forces at the ready. But they arrived a little late. This once again shows how law and order is treated here”, – he said.
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