Suspicious packages continue to be sent to Ukrainian diplomatic missions abroad, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
“In the past two days, suspicious packages have been received at the embassies in Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Denmark, as well as at the consulate in Gdansk,” Kuleba said.
According to Kuleba, this brings the total number of threats to 31 cases in 15 countries: Austria (1), Croatia (1), Czech Republic (2), Denmark (1), France (1), Hungary (2), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (6), Portugal (2), Romania (2), Spain (5), Vatican City (1) and the United States (1).
Some packages contained animal eyes and other crude explosive charges, he noted.
Kuleba went on to say that all suspicious packages bear the same alleged “sender address”, which is a “car dealership in the German town of Sindelfingen”. There is no evidence that the address had anything to do with the packages.
The packages were mostly sent from post offices not equipped with video surveillance systems, and the “attackers” had also avoided leaving traces of DNA, according to Kuleba’s Facebook post.
“In particular, this indicates the professional level of this action,” he said. “Since a week, the Ukrainian embassies and consulates have been operating in the mode of increased security measures, police cordons … and forensic experts.”
“The ongoing campaign of terror against Ukrainian diplomats is unprecedented in scale, not only in the context of Ukraine, but also on a global level,” Kuleba said. “I cannot recall any instances in history when so many embassies and consulates of one country were subjected to such massive attacks in such a short time. But no matter how hard the enemies try to intimidate Ukrainian diplomacy, they will fail. We keep working for the win.”
