Attack on Russian Consulate General in Odessa is dirty, coward action - Russian ministry

The Russian Foreign Ministry has related the action against the country’s Consular General in Odessa and the tragedy in the Odessa Trade Union House. The statement comes from the post on Twitter, which the Foreign Ministry’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law Konstantin Dolgov made on Saturday, TASS reports.

"The Ukrainian national radicals have organized a dirty and coward action against the Consulate General in Odessa," he wrote. "It is nothing new for them after they burned down people in the Trade Union House."

Earlier, on Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a comment on the actions of Ukrainian radicals, who had blocked the Russian Consulate General in Odessa for more than two hours: "a yet another appalling incident" staged by the so-called "Ukrainian activists" unfolded in front of the Russian Consulate General in Odessa.