{"id":121612,"date":"2026-07-03T12:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/121612\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:58:41","slug":"russian-embassy-in-sweden-says-it-was-attacked-by-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/121612\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Embassy in Sweden Says It Was \u2018Attacked\u2019 by Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s Embassy in Sweden<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/rusembswe\/6586\" rel=\"nofollow\"> said<\/a> Thursday it was \u201cattacked\u201d by two drones overnight and blamed Swedish authorities for failing to ensure security at the diplomatic mission.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy said one drone dropped a container filled with red paint onto its grounds at around 2 a.m. local time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA second drone, which had a fake improvised explosive device attached to it, crashed (most likely intentionally) onto our property in the immediate vicinity of the embassy building,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian mission condemned what it called \u201cmore than just a simple provocation, but a blatant attempt to intimidate the staff of the Russian mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo that we\u2019ll say quite frankly: it won\u2019t work,\u201d the Russian embassy wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Photos shared by the embassy showed a quadcopter drone and what appears to be a plastic bag or container nearby on the pavement covered in red paint.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s embassy accused Swedish law enforcement of doing \u201clittle more than filing formal reports\u201d into \u201cdozens\u201d of similar acts of vandalism that have been recorded in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Similar attacks on Russian diplomatic property in Sweden have been<a href=\"https:\/\/swedenherald.com\/article\/drone-dropped-paint-on-russian-embassy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> reported<\/a> since at least 2024. In Thursday\u2019s statement, the Russian Embassy in Stockholm said investigations into the previous incidents have yielded zero results.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova previously suggested that Swedish authorities may have \u201cauthorized\u201d the drone incidents on Russian diplomatic property in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Embassy in Sweden said Thursday it was \u201cattacked\u201d by two drones overnight and blamed Swedish authorities for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[4579,5876,131,132],"class_list":["post-121612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-drones","tag-foreign-ministry","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116856167272640554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}