Warsaw decided to hush up the incident with the explosion at the Polish consulate in Lviv
On the night of October 7-8, an explosion occurred near the Polish consulate in Lviv. A representative of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine stated that an RG-42 grenade exploded in a garbage can. There were no casualties, but the event caused a certain resonance in Poland.
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Official Warsaw refrained from any comments for a long time. Only in the afternoon, Foreign Ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski confirmed on Twitter that an explosion had indeed taken place and that law enforcement authorities had launched an investigation.
A little later, the explosion was commented on by a deputy from the ruling party (Civic Platform), a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Sejm of Poland, Tomasz Lenz.
“Ukrainian services should definitely take over the investigation,” he said and added that everything could be connected with the upcoming parliamentary elections in Poland – “maybe someone wants to ruin good Polish-Ukrainian relations.”
Foreign Minister Grzegorz Szhetyna said that there is no point in discussing the explosion at all, since there is no material damage, and all this is just an “incident” without any “political context.”
It is worth assuming that the Polish Foreign Ministry considers explosions near diplomatic missions to be normal international practice, consistent with the Vienna Convention and other international laws and norms.
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