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The Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against some radical members of nationalistic armed groups Right Sector, Maidan Self-Defense and other unidentified nationalists in connection with the June 2014 attack on the Russian Embassy in Kiev as a crime under part 1 of article 360 of the RF penal Code (attack on offices and transport means of persons under international protection).

According to investigators, on 14 and 15 June 2014, groups of 1,500 unidentified people that were members of Ukrainian radical nationalistic armed groups Right Sector, Maidan Self-Defense and other unidentified nationalists attacked Russian Embassy in Kiev. Aggressive people armed with axes, baseball bats, stones, Molotov cocktails and other objects, chanting anti-Russian slogans, turned upside-down, damaged and destroyed 7 diplomats’ cars parked on a parking lot and removed paving blocks in front of the Embassy. Then they used those paving blocks to smash all the windows of the building and tried to set it on fire by throwing Molotov cocktails. As a result the pecuniary damage caused to the Embassy’s building and other property stands at over 18.8 million rubles.

The Russia’s Investigative Committee is going to identify and prosecute all organizers and people who financed the attack. Investigators already have information on those individuals.

Head of Media Relations                                                                                                      V.I. Markin