After the six shipments of explosive letters in Madrid and Zaragoza, several Ukrainian diplomatic headquarters in Europe, including the Embassy in Madrid, have received “bloody packages” with animal eyes, as the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denounced this Friday. , pointing to a “well-planned campaign of terror and intimidation at Ukrainian embassies and consulates.” The Ukrainian embassy in Madrid has been cordoned off.
As published on Facebook by the spokesman for the Ministry, Oleg Nikolenko, the embassies in Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia and Austria, in addition to the general consulates in Naples, Krakow and Brno (Czech Republic), have received these containers “impregnated with a liquid of characteristic color and with its corresponding odor”.
“We studied the meaning of this message,” Nikolenko explained. The minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has ordered all embassies and consulates to increase their security systems, assuring that attempts to intimidate Ukraine “for not being able to stop it on the diplomatic front” are “useless.”
It’s not just about the packages. According to Nikolenko, the entrance to the residence of the Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican has also been vandalized. Apparently they would have deposited human excrement in front of his door. In Kazakhstan, the embassy reportedly received a bomb threat, while the embassy in the United States received a letter containing an article critical of Ukraine.
“The Ukrainian side interacts with the law enforcement agencies of foreign countries to investigate all cases of threats, identify the people involved and bring them to justice,” Nikolenko said.
Spanish police sources assure that an envelope of these characteristics —and without Spanish postage— has arrived at the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid. Inside was the crushed eye of an animal.
The National Police has cordoned off the Ukrainian legation in Spain —for the second time in 48 hours. After 2:00 p.m., the Embassy’s security filter detected the suspicious shipment, according to Interior sources. The agents who were in security work outside the embassy immediately evacuated the building and Tedax technicians went to the place, ruling out that it was an explosive.
The fact that its postage is not Spanish, together with its characteristics, leads the Ministry of the Interior to link the facts with shipments that have been intercepted at other Ukrainian embassies and consular offices in different European countries.
Everything happens after the alert went off in Spain for six brown envelopes with pyrotechnic material, a shipment investigated as an alleged crime of terrorism, destined from the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, in addition to the US and Ukrainian embassies in Madrid -which on Wednesday left one wounded and also forced the cordon off of the area-, something interpreted as a clear intimidating message due to Spain’s support for Kyiv in the war. Only one of the six envelopes with fireworks has the clues intact to reach the author of the chain.
