MOSCOW | The Russian ambassador to Poland was sprayed with a red substance and attacked by pro-Ukrainian demonstrators on Monday, on the sidelines of a ceremony in Warsaw marking the end of World War II, the Russian agency Ria reported. Novosti.
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Images broadcast, without sound, by this agency show the diplomat, Sergei Andreyev, his shirt and face smeared in red, as are several people around him.
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Behind them, Ukrainian flags waved by protesters are visible.
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Other images show the Russian delegation being escorted by Polish police.
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According to Ria Novosti, the ambassador was to lay a wreath of flowers at the Warsaw cemetery where the Soviet soldiers who died during the Second World War are buried on the occasion of the commemorations of May 9, 1945, the date which for the Russians marks the victory over the Nazi Germany.
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Russia constantly denounces the “Russophobia” of Westerners in general and of Poland in particular.
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It justifies its offensive in Ukraine by a Western anti-Russian project in this country and an alleged genocide of Russian speakers by Ukrainian neo-Nazis.