Moscow, May 10 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Russia's Communist Party (KPRF) plans to send a delegation to Lviv to investigate a scandal on Monday in which a group of radical nationalists assaulted Russian diplomats and others in a bid to stop events marking the anniversary of the end of World War II, one of the KPRF leaders said on Tuesday.
"On Tuesday, at a meeting of the secretariat of the central committee of the KPRF, extremely harsh assessments were made of the disgraceful incident in Lviv, and now we will organize a visit there for a delegation – we will form a delegation of politicians with serious status and send it to Lviv," Ivan Melnikov, first deputy leader of the party and a deputy chairman of the State Duma, told reporters.
The delegation will include "Russian, European and, of course, Ukrainian officials, and members of left-wing and communist parties," he said.
"The event in Lviv is a major international scandal that must be in the focus of attention for the entire world community and must receive appropriate assessments. It is absolutely obvious that it was an act of brutal historical vandalism on the political platform of fascist revanchism," Melnikov said.
Duma deputies who are KPRF members and all of the party’s representatives in international organizations, including the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, "are planning to press for such assessments," he said.
"We’ll seek the involvement of an extremely wide range of left-wing and labor parties all over the world, and many will respond, I’m convinced," Melnikov said.
On Monday Ukrainian nationalists assaulted Russian diplomats who were heading for a military cemetery on Lviv’s Hill of Glory, where the Russian consul in the city was going to lay a wreath.
The attackers wrenched the wreath from the diplomats and crushed it with their feet.
War veterans and others who had come to the Hill of Glory were also attacked by nationalists who were trying to prevent Victory Day events. There were clashes between the nationalists and police.
