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ROME -- Ukrainian embassies and consulates successful six European countries person received packages containing animals' eyes successful caller days, a Ukrainian authoritative said Friday.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oleh Nikolenko wrote connected Facebook that the “bloody parcels” were received by the Ukrainian embassies successful Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia and Italy, arsenic good arsenic by consulates successful Naples, Italy; Krakow, Poland and the Czech metropolis of Brno. He said that “we are studying the meaning of this message.”
“It’s a precise beardown signal,” the Ukrainian consul successful Naples, Maksym Kovalenko, said, confirming his bureau received 2 letters containing food eyes astatine astir 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Nikolenko said the parcels arrived aft a bundle containing an explosive instrumentality sent to the Ukrainian Embassy successful Madrid ignited upon opening connected Wednesday and injured an employee. That was 1 of aggregate explosive parcels recovered successful Spain this week.
Spain´s Interior Ministry said constabulary evacuated the Madrid embassy connected Friday aft different fishy bundle was detected. The ministry said the parcel was posted from extracurricular Spain and mightiness beryllium portion of the concatenation of message sent to different embassies successful Europe. Police were investigating the contents and did not find immoderate explosives, the ministry said.
Elsewhere, the entranceway to the residence of the Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican was vandalized and the Ukrainian Embassy successful Kazakhstan was warned of an onslaught with explosives, though that wasn't confirmed, Nikolenko said.
In Poland, a spokesperson for the constabulary successful Warsaw confirmed by email that a bundle arrived astatine the Ukrainian Consulate successful the Polish superior connected Thursday that “raised concern” from 1 of the employees. The constabulary section for protecting diplomatic missions was notified and “we rapidly eliminated the danger” spokesperson Sylwester Marczak said. He provided nary further details. Marczak said helium was not alert of immoderate specified parcel arriving astatine the Ukrainian Embassy successful Warsaw.
Police successful Krakow, successful confederate Poland, did not corroborate an incidental astatine the consulate determination but said a suspicious bundle was identified astatine a station bureau Thursday. Police said the contents were being examined but would not accidental to whom the bundle was addressed.
In the Czech Republic, constabulary said an X-ray scan recovered nary explosives successful a checked package, but they added aboriginal that carnal insubstantial was recovered wrong that has been submitted to laboratory tests.
Ukraine’s ambassador to the Vatican, Andrii Yurash, said the entranceway to his Rome residence was vandalized Thursday day with what helium believed to beryllium carnal feces. The doorway to the flat and the stairs and walls successful the entryway were “smeared with a soiled substance with an unpleasant smell,” helium told The Associated Press. He said his woman and lad were not location astatine the time, and constabulary were called.
“And besides the diplomatic ngo successful Italy received immoderate letters besides with immoderate precise unpleasant worldly inside, I mean immoderate carnal eyes. I don’t cognize precisely but it looks similar eyes from food oregon immoderate different animals," Yurash said. "So it is hard to explicate wholly why, and what is the crushed of this unspeakable message, but it is nary uncertainty a systematic trend, a systematic onslaught connected Ukrainian missions astir Europe.”
In Croatia, constabulary said the Ukrainian Embassy successful Zagreb called to study that a suspicious bundle meant for the embassy arrived astatine the station office, but diplomatic unit didn’t cod it pursuing the informing from the Foreign Ministry.
Croatian constabulary took custody of the bundle and are investigating wherever it was sent from and what it contained. No different details were revealed.
All Ukrainian embassies and consulates person stepped up information measures. Nikolenko quoted Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba arsenic saying that “we person crushed to judge that a well-planned run of panic and intimidation of Ukrainian embassies and consulates is taking place.”
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Jovana Gec successful Belgrade, Serbia, Monika Scislowska successful Warsaw, Poland, Karel Janicek successful Prague, and Ciaran Giles successful Madrid contributed reporting.
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