Agency: Three Ukrainian diplomatic missions receive threatening letters
Ukraine's Interfax news agency quoted a senior official as saying on Thursday that three Ukrainian diplomatic missions had received threatening letters dipped in red liquid, a day after a parcel bomb exploded at the country's embassy in Spain.
The agency stated that the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, described these incidents as an attempt to intimidate Ukrainian diplomats.
"If they really start attacking embassies, that means they are afraid of us and are trying to stop us," he was quoted as saying on national television.
"Inside these letters was a symbolic threat to Ukraine. All envelopes were dipped in red liquid at the time they were received," he said, declining to give further details.
A package intended for the Ukrainian ambassador to Spain exploded at the embassy in Madrid on Wednesday while a security official was checking it, causing him minor injuries.
Ukraine's ambassador to Spain, Serhiy Bohurltsev, appeared to point an accusing finger at Russia.
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