According to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the incident did not make injuries or damaged the Lviv building.
Le Monde with AFP
Russia denounced on Friday, an attack with an inflammatory machine against his consulate general in Lviv, in western Ukraine, an incident that did not make a victim but occurs in full tensions between Moscow and Kiev. Russian diplomacy clarified in a statement:
“On December 24, at 2:30 am [midnight in Paris], the Consulate General of Russia in Lviv suffered a terrorist act. An unidentified person laid in the direction of an entry of the establishment bottle with flammable liquid that caught fire. “
According to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the incident did not hurt. The LVIV police said the Molotov cocktail had been thrown against the enclosure surrounding the consulate, without damaging the building, adding to open an investigation for “hooliganism”.
“Hostility against Russia”
“This scandalous and unacceptable act is the consequence of an exacerbation in Ukraine of Russophobic hysteria and incentives for hatred and hostility against Russia,” Russian diplomacy said. Moscow adds that an acting representative of Kiev was summoned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was addressed to her “a strong protest” and required that Ukraine ensures the safety of Russian diplomatic staff.
This incident involves in full tensions between Ukraine and Russia, accused by Westerners to massage troops at the Ukrainian border for possible military intervention. The Kremlin firmly denies all bellicose will.
The relations between Kiev and Moscow have been execrable since the annexation in 2014 by Russia of the Ukrainian Peninsula of Crimea and the beginning of a war between the Ukrainian troops and Prorusses separatists.