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Russia Today
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Drone targets Russian Embassy in NATO country
An unidentified drone flew over the Russian Embassy in the Swedish capital, Stockholm on Sunday and dropped a container of paint near the main entrance. According to a statement issued by the diplomats, the drone operators used a glass vessel which could have caused serious injuries had it struck anyone. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova urged Sweden to 'tame its ultras [radicals]' following the incident. 'Tomorrow, Stockholm will receive a note of protest. Sweden must tame its ultras, take control of the situation, and strictly observe the Vienna Convention,' Zakharova told TASS on Sunday. The embassy said these types of incidents have persisted for over a year, and that repeated appeals to Swedish police and the Foreign Ministry have not produced any results. It accused Stockholm of ignoring its obligations under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which requires host countries to protect foreign embassies and their personnel. Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Russian diplomatic missions have been frequently harassed, with vandals throwing eggs or defacing buildings with spray paint. In January, a Ukrainian citizen living in Sweden rammed his vehicle into the embassy gates. The same individual previously targeted Russian diplomatic premises in 2015 and 2018. In April, paint cans were dropped in front of the embassy's auxiliary building and residential compound, which includes a school. 'The probes into the previous incidents allegedly conducted by Swedish law enforcement yielded no results,' the embassy said at the time. The diplomats noted that the incident in April was the 11th in the past year.
Arab News
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Pakistani man killed as multiple Indian drones downed amid cross-border hostilities
KARACHI: A Pakistani man was killed and another injured on Thursday when an Indian drone fell on them in the border region of the southern Sindh province, said a police official, amid heightened military tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors following deadly missile strikes a day earlier. The incident comes after an Indian missile attack killed 31 people and injured 57 across several locations in Pakistan, with New Delhi calling it a response to an April 22 attack in the disputed Kashmir region that left 26 tourists dead and which it blamed on Pakistan despite Islamabad's repeated denials. New Delhi said it had targeted 'terrorist infrastructure' across Pakistan, while Islamabad condemned the strikes as a violation of sovereignty and said it had shot down five Indian fighter jets. The drone incident occurred in Sarfaraz Leghari village, located in Ghotki district, according to Senior Superintendent of Police Dr. Samiullah Soomro. 'This morning, a drone fell over two villagers... killing one man and injuring another,' Soomro told Arab News over the phone, saying more details would be confirmed following a visit to the site. Eyewitnesses in Ghotki said the drone entered from the Indian side last night and hovered over the village before it was hit by Pakistani forces this morning, following which it fell down near canal where the men were working. 'My brother Mukhtiar Ahmed, who was only 25, was martyred,' Jabbar Laghari, a local schoolteacher, said. 'He leaves behind three children. My father was also injured.' A security officer told reporters that the drone was Indian. Separately, Pakistan's air defense system shot down an Indian drone in the eastern city of Lahore, Pakistani police and security officials said, as India evacuated thousands of people from villages near the two countries' highly militarized frontier in Kashmir. Local police official Mohammad Rizwan said only that a drone was downed in the Waltan neighborhood of the city that also contains military installations. Local media reported that two additional drones were shot down in other cities in Punjab province, of which Lahore is the capital. Tens of thousands of people in Indian-administered Kashmir also slept in shelters across the de-facto border in Indian-controlled Kashmir overnight, officials and residents said on Thursday. –With input from AP
