This was announced by the representative of the department Simone Gravite.

“A call was received due to the fact that the Russian embassy may have received a suspicious package containing a substance of unknown origin,” RIA Novosti quotes her.

Police and other emergency services are on the scene.

Earlier, the Embassy of Ukraine in Kazakhstan received a message about the mining of the building.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that the number of threats to diplomatic missions has increased to 17.

Also, the Spanish newspaper Okdiario reported that an explosive device hidden in a letter went off at the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid.