MADRID — A letter bomb delivered to the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid exploded on Wednesday, mildly injuring an worker who was inspecting it, Ukrainian and Spanish officers mentioned.
Ukraine’s international minister, Dmytro Kuleba, ordered all Kyiv’s embassies to strengthen safety after the assault.
The embassy’s supervisor was checking an envelope acquired within the mail when it exploded in his fingers, Oleh Nikolenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Overseas Ministry, mentioned in a press release on Telegram.
The Spanish Nationwide Police mentioned they had been investigating the episode and that no suspects had been recognized. The worker, who sustained a minor harm to a finger on his proper hand, was handled at a hospital and has been launched.
The envelope, which arrived with the embassy’s common mail supply, was addressed to Serhii Pohoreltsev, Ukraine’s ambassador to Spain, a spokesman for Madrid’s authorities mentioned in a press release.
The embassy couldn’t be reached for remark.
The police mentioned they had been contacted at about 1:20 p.m. by the embassy, which is within the jap a part of the Spanish capital. The police despatched a bomb squad and a canine unit to the location and the world was cordoned off.
