{"id":194443,"date":"2025-06-18T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194443\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:05:08","slug":"eu-summons-russian-envoy-over-assault-on-european-diplomat-in-vladivostok-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194443\/","title":{"rendered":"EU summons Russian envoy over assault on European diplomat in Vladivostok \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU has summoned Moscow\u2019s ambassador to Brussels to explain an assault on a European diplomat in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>A diplomat with the European External Action Service was attacked on May 26 in Vladivostok, an eastern Russian city near the North Korean border, where she was on official business, Der Spiegel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/ausland\/russland-diplomatin-der-eu-vertretung-in-wladiwostok-zusammengeschlagen-offenbar-russischer-inlandsgeheimdienst-a-87d292f9-dc45-4835-a32f-08d3be5eb697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can confirm that a member of our staff was assaulted in the early hours of Monday, May 26, in Vladivostok,\u201d European Commission spokesperson Anitta Hipper said Wednesday. \u201cWe condemn any violence against EU diplomats. They must be able to carry out their duties free from fear and intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU has summoned Moscow\u2019s ambassador to Brussels to explain an assault on a European diplomat in Russia.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[6178,5293,46647,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-194443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-diplomacy","10":"tag-eu-russia-relations","11":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114704516622834394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}