{"id":195849,"date":"2025-06-19T01:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195849\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T01:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:20:12","slug":"eu-summons-russia-envoy-over-attack-of-a-diplomat-in-vladivostok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195849\/","title":{"rendered":"EU summons Russia envoy over attack of a diplomat in Vladivostok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BRUSSELS &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/european-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union<\/a> has summoned Russia\u2019s envoy to <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/brussels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brussels<\/a> for an explanation after one of the bloc\u2019s officials was attacked in the eastern city of Vladivostok last month, an EU spokesperson said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The diplomat was attacked on May 26. Their name, nationality and medical condition weren&#8217;t provided. German news outlet Der Spiegel reported that the official was a Romanian woman who had traveled to the city on official business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Der Spiegel said that the woman was attacked after leaving her hotel for an early morning walk. It said a car pulled up alongside her, and that two men got out. She was threatened, and then beaten up. The men were believed to work for Russian security authorities, the news magazine said, citing EU diplomatic sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWe condemn any violence against EU diplomats. They must be able to carry out their duties free from fear and intimidation,\u201d EU spokesperson Anitta Hipper said. \u201cThe safety of our staff is paramount, and we will continue to review the protection of our diplomatic staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Russia\u2019s representative in Brussels was summoned \u201cfor clarifications.\u201d No further details were provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS &#8212; The European Union has summoned Russia\u2019s envoy to Brussels for an explanation after one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[79599,3907,4179,2452,285,332,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-195849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-79599","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-media","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114707406790595796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195849","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=195849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}