The Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreyev, It was assaulted this monday in warsaw when a group of people he threw red paint on it. Before the incident, Andreyev carried out a floral tribute at the cemetery-mausoleum of Soviet soldiers in Warsaw on the occasion of the Russian national holiday of Victory Day.
Despite the fact that the Russian embassy announced in the morning that it was giving up any public act outside its premises, according to the recommendations of the Polish Foreign Ministry and the mayor of the city, the ambassador and a small entourage decided to go to the cemetery. A group of people was concentrated there, some of them with Ukrainian flags, and upon identifying Andreyev, a group separated from the rest to consummate their aggression.
The response of the Russian ambassador
The ambassador, completely covered in red paint thrown at him, shouted to the crowd that he was “proud” of its president, Vladimir Putinand after saying that “those territories do not belong to Ukraine” (referring to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions), he managed to make his way to the waiting car.
The Soviet Soldiers Cemetery-Mausoleum occupies 19 hectares of Warsaw and was established shortly after the end of World War II to house the remains of more than 20,000 Red Army soldiers killed between 1944 and 1945. Since the war began in Ukraine, anti-Russian sentiment has been exacerbated in Poland, a country that remained in Moscow’s orbit from 1945 to 1989.
In front of the diplomatic representations of Warsaw and Krakow, where there is a Russian consulate, graffiti against the invasion of Ukraine, banners and posters against a caricatured Vladimir Putin or directly characterized as Hitler are multiplying.
Recently, the Warsaw city council has presented an artistic installation that authorizes a group of artists to paint 60 meters of sidewalk -including those located in front of the Russian embassy- with murals.
Source: Lasexta
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