“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is extremely disturbed by the fact that the national flag of Ukraine was burnt during an attack on the premises of Ukraine’s National Cultural Center in Moscow by a group of young radicals on Nov.22,” read the ministry’s press service statement, published on Nov. 23.
The ministry demanded to investigate the incident.
“Such actions” outside the center, located in the very center of the Russian capital, have been systematic and law enforcement agencies have not properly reacted, the Ukrainian ministry said.
“Ukraine views this incident as a provocation and artificially imposing aggression against Ukraine in Russian society,” it said.
On Nov. 22, several activists from the unregistered organization The Other Russia held an action near the Ukrainian Cultural Center, located in Moscow’s Stary Arbat Street, The Other Russia spokesman Alexander Averin told Interfax.
A Ukrainian flag was burned and the entrance to the center was blocked during the action, he said. The activists were protesting against the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ operations in Donbas. No activists were detained, Averin said.
