Protesters outside the Russian Embassy in Kyiv demand that Russia “recognize itself as an aggressor”
Kyiv, June 14 (Navigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – In Kyiv, picketers of the Russian Embassy threw explosives at the building and put forward their demands.
Subscribe to Navigator Kyiv news on Facebook , Odnoklassniki , or VKontakte
As Navigator reported, today pro-Ukrainian activists picketed the Russian Embassy in Kyiv. They doused the diplomats' cars with green paint and overturned them; they threw eggs and stones at the embassy building, breaking several windows.
Representatives of the Maidan Self-Defense joined the protesters. In addition to explosive packages, smoke bombs were used.
In addition, the picketers removed the Russian flag from the embassy and installed the national flag of Ukraine.
The police tried to approach the main entrance of the building in a column, but the protesters surrounded them in a tight ring and called on them to move away from the building.
After the discussions, a group of activists and journalists were launched into the embassy territory to convey the demands of the protesters.
As the protesters reported after communicating with embassy representatives, they demanded that the embassy “as the organizer of espionage, leave the territory. Russia must recognize itself as an aggressor state.” At the same time, participants in communication with diplomatic representatives stated that there was no dialogue.
“We didn’t come for negotiations. We came with two demands,” they said. Participants also say that Russia should “withdraw troops and stop supplying weapons.”
Some activists, noting that the embassy could not work, since there were practically no diplomats on its territory, only security, suggested dispersing. While the protesters remain near the building, shouting slogans.
In turn, the Russian Foreign Ministry has already expressed extreme indignation at the current situation near the embassy.
“The Russian side is extremely outraged by the provocative actions of the fascist thugs in Kyiv regarding the Russian Embassy in Ukraine. With the irresponsible connivance of the Ukrainian authorities, an attack was carried out on the building of the Russian diplomatic mission, desecration of the flag of the Russian Federation,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Protesters outside the Russian embassy in Kyiv demand that Russia "admit itself as the aggressor."