A masked gang throws hammers at the Finnish embassy in Moscow | News
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the incident, but added that there were no injuries to embassy staff or the building.
A group of masked individuals threw hammers at the grounds of the Finnish embassy in Moscow on Tuesday in an apparent “revenge” attack.
The Russian channel uploaded a video of the event to the Telegram messaging platform Do the work (“The police say”).
The channel claimed that the attack on the Finnish embassy was a response to “numerous provocations against Russian diplomatic targets in Finland”. It added that stones and road signs have been thrown at the territory of Russian diplomatic missions in Finland and that surveillance cameras have been targeted at the consulate’s parking areas.
The Moscow case was therefore, Oper pishet, revenge for “Finland’s unfriendly actions”.
However, the channel does not specify when the apparent attack on the Finnish embassy took place.
Several Russian media, including Komsomolskaya Pravda (you switch to another service) and Moskovskij Komsomolets (you switch to another service) made reports about what happened.
According to one account MSK1 news service (you switch to another service)The Moscow police are not aware of the incident.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to Yle’s Russian-language news service Yle Novosti that the incident happened on Tuesday around 12 o’clock local time.
“The act caused no personal or material damage to the embassy,” the ministry told Yle.
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