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The Russian ambassador to Poland was surrounded by protesters and dashed with lurid, blood-like paint during a World War Two commemorative event in Warsaw on Monday.
Ambassador Sergey Andreev was attending a wreath-laying at a military cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, to commemorate the Russian-observed anniversary of the end of the Second World War when he was struck with paint on the face, chest, and shoulders.
Surrounded by a group of men and women carrying Ukrainian flags and chanting “fascist”, Russian ambassador Andreev was struck several times by thrown packets containing red paint or dye. The Associated Press claims the protesters that met Andreev numbered in their hundreds, and that Polish police officers assisted the ambassador in getting away.
Andreev was carrying a wreath at the time he was struck with the paint and left the cemetery, the resting place of over 21,000 Soviet war dead, without planting the wreath. While most European countries in Europe and the United States recognize the 8th of May as the anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, Russia has always marked its own Victory Day on the 9th instead, reflecting the German letter of surrender having reached Moscow a day later.
