MOSCOW (Sputnik) – On Friday, right-wing Ukrainian nationalists organized a picket of the Russian Consulate General in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa.
"A large group of young people, about 100, assembled near the embassy building and started throwing various items, eggs, onto the embassy territory. Then they disappeared."
Police have not made any detentions, according to the source, as they were not notified of the incident.
"Everything happened really fast, in several minutes. The guards at the building were calm."
Russian Consul General in Odessa Valery Katunkin told media that Ukrainian radicals, in particular members of the Right Sector and the Azov Battalion blocked entry to the building to stop people from attending events held ahead of Sunday's Russia Day. The nationalist protesters pelted the building with eggs and built mock gallows nearby, according to Katunkin.
Russia Day is a national holiday commemorating the declaration of sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) on June 12, 1990.
Relations between Russia and Ukraine have deteriorated severely after Crimea decided by public vote to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia in 2014. Kiev has accused Moscow of intervening in Ukrainian internal affairs and supporting independence fighters in Ukraine’s southeast.
