Moscow police: five activists stopped from getting into Ukraine Embassy
MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax) - Opposition party The Other Russia claimed that five of its members were able to get into the Ukrainian Embassy building in Moscow on Monday and refused to leave, while the city police confirmed that five activists tried to get onto the embassy premises but said the attempt had been thwarted.
"Five people have been detained," Other Russia spokesman Alexander Averin told Interfax. He said the activists, wearing masks, had managed to enter the embassy building in the city center and refused to go out. "The action was called 'Kyiv is a Russian city," Averin said.
The Other Russia's leader is writer Eduard Limonov.
A spokesman for Moscow's police authority told Interfax that five people had tried to enter the embassy premises but that police and embassy personnel had managed to keep them out.
"Those persons have been taken to a police station," the spokesman said. They were likely to be penalized, according to him.
