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Unidentified persons attempted to attack the Ukrainian Embassy in Athens by throwing Molotov cocktails last night, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said.

“There was an attempt to attack our embassy in Athens with bottle bombs last night. Probably those were radicals influenced by Russia,” Klimkin said on Twitter.

No one was injured, and the embassy has been put under 24-hour security, he said.