According to the newspaper, the incident occurred less than an hour before the American leader Donald Trump had to go from the White House to the Abraham Lincoln Memorial to deliver a festive speech.

In March, activists of the Serbian Radical Party led by their leader Vojislav Seselj burned the flags of the European Union and NATO in the center of Belgrade on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Yugoslavia.

In February, residents of Port-au-Prince in Haiti came out to protest with criticism of President Zhovenel Moise for his commitment to cooperate with the United States, and also called on Russia to help resolve the country's crisis.