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Poland reopens consulates in Ukraine after attack

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Paweł Kononczuk 04.04.2017 12:21
Polish consulates in Ukraine reopened on Tuesday, almost a week after a grenade attack on a consulate in the north-western city of Lutsk.
Petro Poroshenko. Photo: Michał Józefaciuk - Senat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36280719Petro Poroshenko. Photo: Michał Józefaciuk - Senat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36280719

The foreign ministry in Warsaw said Ukraine has taken "measures necessary to ensure the security of both Polish foreign service staff and Polish diplomatic and consular missions."

Warsaw decided to close Polish consulates in Ukraine after a grenade was fired at its consulate in Lutsk last Wednesday.

No one was injured. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko strongly condemned the attack.

Speaking after being called in by the Polish foreign ministry, Ukraine’s ambassador to Warsaw claimed Russia was behind the incident.

The blast in Lutsk followed a series of attacks against Polish monuments in western Ukraine.

In January a monument to Poles murdered in 1944 in the village of Huta Pieniacka was destroyed.

In a separate incident days later, another site at the Bykivnia cemetery in western Ukraine was painted over by vandals. Both sites were dedicated to the memory of Poles who were killed in World War II.

(pk)

Source: PAP

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