Explosion at Ukrainian embassy in Spain being investigated as terrorist attack

The National Judicial Board of Spain opened a preliminary proceeding regarding the explosion in the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, qualifying it as a terrorist attack. Source: Spanish agency Europa Press, European Pravda Jose Luis Calama, judge of the National Judicial Board, made this decision after receiving a preliminary police report about the circumstances of the explosion in the Ukrainian embassy.

Agency sources claim that, according to preliminary analysis, the package which was addressed to Serhii Pohoreltsev, the head of the Ukrainian embassy, contained explosives.

As of now only a preliminary inquest is open. Europa Press reports that the judge has not made a decision about the start of an investigation as he is waiting for a police report with more detailed and precise information about the incident. On Wednesday afternoon, it was revealed that an employee of the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid was moderately injured after a bomb exploded in the building of the diplomatic institution.

Later, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine confirmed that the Ukrainian embassy in Spain received a package with an explosive device.

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After that Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, instructed to immediately strengthen security of all Ukrainian embassies abroad and called upon his Spanish counterpart to urgently take measures for investigating the attack on the Ukrainian diplomatic institution. Read also: The Ukrainian ambassador on the details of the explosion in the embassy in Madrid: consequences may have been more serious.

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