The incident was not merely a provocation, but an ‘attempt to intimidate’ the diplomatic staff, the Embassy stated.

On Thursday, the Russian Embassy in Sweden said that two drones had hit its mission in Stockholm at around 2 a.m. local time.

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One quadcopter dropped a container of red paint inside the embassy; a second drone, carrying a dummy improvised explosive device, fell inside the compound close to the building. The Russian embassy called the incident not merely a provocation, but “an open attempt to intimidate” its staff.

Noting that similar incidents had happened before, the embassy accused Swedish authorities of failing to ensure the security of foreign diplomatic missions as required under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

The embassy said that although Swedish authorities had formally registered previous attacks against the mission, their investigations over more than two years had yielded no results. It warned that responsibility for any further attacks on Russia’s diplomatic mission and for their possible consequences would lie with the Swedish side. There was no immediate comment from Swedish authorities.

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Sources: Xinhua

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