Poland shuts its consulates in Ukraine after grenade attack

Poland has temporarily closed its consulates in Ukraine after a grenade attack on its diplomatic post in Lutsk. They will remain closed “until the expectations of Poland regarding the protection of diplomatic and consular missions in Ukraine have been fulfilled,” Polish deputy Foreign Minister Jan Dziedziczak said after his meeting with Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland. Both Ukrainian and Polish presidents condemned the incident. “The president has strongly condemned [the attack on] the Polish General Consulate in Lutsk and has ordered the authorities to immediately use all means necessary to clarify this incident and to find those guilty,” Svyatoslav Tsegolko, a spokesman for Petro Poroshenko said. His Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda said the incident required “decisive intervention.” No one was hurt in the attack, but the roof and windows of the Polish consulate were damaged. Ukraine's Security Service said the weapon used appeared to be a rocket from an RPG-26, a disposable anti-tank launcher developed by the Soviet Union. The head of Poland's National Security Bureau, Paweł Soloch, said that attack was a Russian provocation. “The question is: who did it and for what purpose? We know the context - there is a Russian aggression against Ukraine,” he said in an interview with RMF FM radio.