No guards appeared to surround the building.įriday also saw one of the worst attacks against civilians in months after shelling by Moscow forces killed at least 30 people in Ukraine’s southern region of Zaporizhzhia. Surveillance camera footage shows a hooded and masked figure spraying the building in the early am. The bright red paint appeared hours before Russian president Vladimir Putin announced he was annexing four Russian-controlled territories in Ukraine. “It’s vandalism but it is the expression of how people in New York are realizing Putin is killing people,” said another bystander, Romen Eaulin. “But the meaning is to express our feeling about Putin, and I can’t say that I don’t agree,” she told AFP. Rosie Morse, a retiree who lives in the neighborhood near the consulate, said the spray paint “looks like art work.” Officers said they responded to an emergency call just after 1:30 am that reported paint sprayed across the facade of the consulate on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.Ī police spokesperson said the investigation is ongoing into the potential “bias incident” and no arrests have been made. The Russian consulate in New York was vandalized with red spray paint early Friday, Agence France-Presse reports. The package, which was approved just hours after Russian president Vladimir Putin annexed four Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions, includes $3bn for arms, supplies and salaries for Ukraine’s military and authorizes president Joe Biden to direct the Pentagon to transfer $3.7bn in weapons and other hardware to Ukraine. Unbelievable, but it is a fact!” Putin said during a televised speech at a Kremlin ceremony to annex four Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.Ĭongress has approved $12.3bn in aid on Friday to Ukraine as part of a stopgap spending bill that seeks to preven a chaotic government shutdown ahead of a midnight deadline. Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday accused the West of organising blasts that led to numerous gas leaks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines from Russia to Europe. The resolution would have condemned the “illegal” referendums held in those Russian-occupied territories and call on all states not to recognize any changes to Ukraine’s borders. The US cosponsored a resolution with Ukraine pushed shortly after Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow would take over areas of Ukraine seized in the invasion following Kremlin-organized referendums. Russia on Friday vetoed a Western bid at the UN Security Council to condemn its annexations of Ukrainian territory. These steps mean a lot to us,” Zelenskiy said in his public daily address. Everyone has heard what is happening in Lyman, Donetsk region. There is already enough public information about this. “We have significant results in the east of our country. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy hailed Ukraine’s counteroffensive successes in the east as Kyiv’s forces appear to get closer to retaking the key town of Lyman, which Moscow captured in the spring. A police spokeperson said the investigation is ongoing into the potential “bias incident” and no arrests have been made. Officers said they responded to an emergency call just after 1:30 am that reported paint sprayed across the facade of the consulate on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
The Russian consulate in New York was vandalized with red spray paint early Friday.
According to the outlet, Russia’s defense ministry “reportedly claims that the decision is ‘not in any way related’” to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on routine autumn conscription, the Kyiv Independent reports.
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