A stranger is said to have thrown a bottle with a flammable liquid at the fence of the Russian Consulate General in Ukraine in the early hours of the morning.
The Ukrainian authorities report.
After the incident at the Consulate General in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, the Moscow Foreign Ministry summoned a diplomatic representative from Ukraine on Friday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced.
Nobody was injured in the incident.
The Russian Foreign Ministry described the incident as a terrorist act and the result of "Russophobic hysteria".
The liquid caught fire and no employees were injured “by a lucky coincidence”.
An apology is expected from Kiev
The Chargé d'Affaires of the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow had been sent a "resolute protest" as well as the demand that Ukraine should fulfill its international obligations to secure diplomatic and consular missions.
An apology is expected from Kiev.
In addition, the Russian embassy in Kiev sent a protest note to the Ukrainian foreign ministry, in which it called for greater security measures for the consulate general and its employees, it was said.
Relations between neighboring countries are extremely tense.
A Russian troop deployment near the Ukrainian border has been causing concern for weeks.
Parts of the eastern Ukrainian areas of Donetsk and Luhansk along the Russian border have been controlled by pro-Russian separatists for more than seven years.
Ukraine also continues to demand the return of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 against international protests.