Saluts for fierce

The Russian Embassy in Kyiv sent a note of protest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, demanding to investigate a night attack and ensure the security of Russian diplomatic mission. This is reported by Interfax.

"In connection with the night attack, the Russian Embassy in Kyiv sent a notent of protest to the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs with a demand to investigate the incident and ensure the safety of Russian diplomatic mission," Interfax agency said in the Russian Embassy.

At about one in the morning on Saturday, a group of unknown people threw a smoke into the territory of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv and released several firecrackers from a fireworks on the building. The action lasted several minutes.

The embassy states that shots from a salute installation were directed directly to the diplomatic mission building. Diplomats claim that the building could catch fire.

There were about twenty attackers. On the banner they expanded, the name of the youth radical group "C14" is visible. Her page in social networks reports that it was a "creative protest against elections to the State Duma in the territory of the occupied Crimea and the dipecots of the Russian Federation in Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov and Lviv."

Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman condemned the attack on the embassy. At the same time, he called him an insignificant episode. "At the Russian embassy - you know, this is hooliganism. It is unacceptable, because the capital of Ukraine Kyiv should be a completely different model of culture. I think this is such a small incident that does not require commenting at all," Groysman said.

Regarding the upcoming elections to the Russian State Duma, Groysman said that in Kyiv they would not introduce additional security measures from Russian dipecots. "We will not protect the electoral process of the Russian Federation. In fact, in Kyiv there is an order, regardless of what day of the week it is. Therefore, the law enforcement system will perform its functions in the standard mode," Groysman said.

On Sunday, Ukrainian activists intend to hold pickets with Russian diplomatic people. “Participation in the rashist“ elections ”, of course, is the ultimate expression of the land of the country of residence and must be convicted both by civil society (including the emigrant community) and at the state level until deportation,” the organizers of the action said. .

The incident at the Russian embassy in Kyiv:

On September 18, Russia will be held in the State Duma, including on the territory of the annexed Crimea. Official Kyiv called on citizens of Ukraine who are located on the territory of the peninsula, not to participate in the vote.

On September 8, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine accepted the appeal to the parliaments of foreign states, parliamentary assemblies and international organizations with a request not to recognize elections to the State Duma in the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol . In addition, the deputies appealed to the international community with a request to publish official statements about the illegitimacy of elections to the State Duma due to their implementation in Crimea.

Russia will not respond to the possible decision of foreign parliaments on non-recognition of elections in the Crimea and take into account, said Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. "In this case, this decision will not play any role and will not be perceived in any way, because Crimea is the territory of Russia. We will not be able to recognize or take into account this decision," Peskov said.

On September 10, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko refused Russia to hold the Duma elections in his country. Later, the press secretary of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Maryana Beza, explained that voting "is impossible even in the premises of the diplomatic and consular services of the Russian Federation." The conditions of voting Kyiv called Russia's refusal to elections in the annexed Crimea and Sevastopol and the exclusion of Crimeans from the federal lists of candidates.

On Thursday, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the State Duma elections in Ukraine will be held , despite Kiev’s refusal to assist in their organization. The Russian Embassy in Kyiv, as well as the Consulate General in Kharkov, Odessa and Lviv, are a Russian territory, the official explained, and therefore the Ukrainian authorities cannot prevent voting there.