Russian ambassador to Poland pelted with red paint at VE Day gathering

[muriel_volestrangler]

Russia’s ambassador to Poland has been pelted with red paint thrown at him by people protesting against the war in Ukraine as he went to lay flowers at the Soviet military cemetery in Warsaw on the anniversary of the allied victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.

Video footage released by Russian news agencies showed Sergey Andreev and several other men with paint on their clothes and faces surrounded by a crowd, some holding Ukrainian flags. In other videos of the incident circulating online, anti-war activists can be heard chanting “fascists” and “murderers”.

Andreev told the Russian news agency Tass that he and his team had not been seriously hurt in the incident. The protesters prevented the ambassador from laying flowers at the cemetery and Polish police escorted him away.
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The Polish interior minister, Mariusz Kaminski, tweeted: “The gathering of opponents of Russian aggression against Ukraine, where genocide takes place every day, was legal. The emotions of Ukrainian women participating in the demonstration, whose husbands courageously fight for the defence of the Motherland, are understandable.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/09/russian-ambassador-to-poland-sergey-andreev-pelted-with-red-paint-at-ve-day-gathering

[rurallib]

1. that gets a huge rec!

[onecaliberal]

2. HELL YES!!!!!!!!!!

[moondust]

3. Payback - justifiable.

April 7: Russian Nobel Laureate Muratov Doused With Red Paint By Unknown Attacker

[Raine]

4. Good ... they're lucky it was only paint

instead of something much worse.