MOSCOW, May 9. Moscow will protest Warsaw due to a provocation against its diplomats, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
«The Polish Foreign Ministry was knowingly informed about the ceremony planned by the embassy, but the Polish authorities did not prevent the provocative actions of the «protesters». department.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that they consider this incident another manifestation of unfriendly attitude on the part of Warsaw. First of all, we are talking about insulting the memory of more than 600 thousand Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of Poland from German occupation. The ministry also noted that Warsaw is not fulfilling its obligations to stop such provocations.
The ministry added that what happened demonstrates «the duplicity of Warsaw's policy in assessing the events of World War II and trying to forget the role of our people in saving the enslaved Nazi Germany of the countries of Europe». They stressed that such actions will not go unanswered by Moscow.
Earlier today, a crowd blocked the way for Russian Ambassador Sergei Andreev at the memorial cemetery in Warsaw, where he had come to lay flowers on the occasion of Victory Day. The audience demanded that the diplomat remove the St. George ribbon from his jacket. The ambassador failed to lay a wreath at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers and had to leave the memorial.