A Russian foreign ministry spokesperson urged that France secure Moscow’s representative offices in the country on Monday, claiming that an incident had taken place at a building used by a Russian government agency in Paris.
On Telegram, Maria Zakharova, a Russian foreign ministry spokesperson, stated, “We urge that the French authorities maintain the adequate security of our official institutions.”
On the night of Sunday to Monday, “a bottle of flammable liquid” was hurled at a building used by Russia’s international cooperation agency Rossotrudnichestvo, Zakharova wrote.
“Because it hit the fence before reaching the target,” Zakharova claimed, no one was hurt in the incident. In December 2021, Russia’s consulate in the Ukrainian city of Lviv was attacked in a similar manner, according to Zakharova. “As a result, there is no necessity.”
