Assault on Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev in WarsawWARSAW, May 9 Interior Minister and the administration of Poland, Mariusz Kaminski tried to justify the attack on Russian Ambassador Sergei Andreev on Monday in Warsaw. On Monday, Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev was attacked and doused with red paint during an attempt to lay a wreath at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Warsaw. Later, the ambassador clarified that it was syrup. «The meeting of opponents of Russian aggression against Ukraine, where the crime of genocide takes place every day, was legal. The emotions of Ukrainian women participating in the demonstration, whose husbands courageously fight for the defense of the Motherland, are understandable,» Kaminsky wrote in Twitter. He noted that «Polish authorities did not recommend the Russian ambassador to lay flowers on May 9 in Warsaw.»The Russian Embassy in Warsaw filed a protest with the Polish Foreign Ministry On Monday, Andreev arrived at the memorial cemetery of Soviet soldiers on Zhvirki and Vigura Street in Warsaw, accompanied by several diplomats and his wife. Aggressive-minded Poles and Ukrainians, who had gathered in advance on the territory of the cemetery, blocked his path, shouting insulting slogans. They began to water the ambassador and the people accompanying him with a red substance. Several fights ensued nearby. A few minutes later, policemen appeared on the spot, who pushed the crowd back, and the ambassador and his entourage left the scene of the attack. The Russian diplomatic mission on Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, like every year, intended to hold the Immortal Regiment action and lay wreaths at the memorial cemetery of Soviet soldiers , a corresponding letter was sent to the Warsaw City Hall. At the same time, the Russian embassy informed that the Polish Foreign Ministry with a note did not recommend the diplomatic mission to hold a wreath and flower laying ceremony, as well as the Immortal Regiment action. >Kosachev called the attack on the Russian ambassador to Poland a «provocation» Also, the Russian Foreign Ministry demanded that Warsaw immediately organize a wreath-laying ceremony, ensuring its complete safety from all kinds of provocations. The Investigative Committee of Russia, in turn, said that it would establish the circumstances of the attack on Russian diplomats in Poland, identify those involved and take measures to attract them to criminal liability. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
