KIEV, February 18. /ITAR-TASS/. Oleg Tatarov, the deputy head of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry main investigative department, told Itar-Tass on Tuesday that unidentified persons had attacked the Canadian embassy in Kiev.

“A group of unidentified persons armed with sticks burst into the Canadian embassy in Ukraine and started crushing property,” Tatarov said, adding the assaulters had tried to inflict bodily harm to the embassy staff.

Tatarov noted that criminal proceedings had been initiated in this connection. He did not give any further details.