“We will make a formal protest,” TASS quoted him as saying.

According to Andreev, the Polish authorities were informed about the embassy's plans to lay flowers.

“When they did not recommend us to hold a wider event, we met them halfway, did not aggravate.

It would seem that there was quite a minimum.

What did it cost to ensure elementary order?

- he said.

Earlier it was reported that Andreev was attacked, he was doused with red paint while trying to lay a wreath at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Warsaw.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that this attack once again testifies to the West's course towards the reincarnation of fascism.