According to Stockholm regional police spokesman Ola Oesterling, no one was injured and the villa was not evacuated.
He emphasized that trade delegation workers noticed the drone at approximately 5:30 local time – that’s when it dropped a container with paint and an unknown substance. According to Oesterling, they then called the police.
Investigators took samples of the substance for analysis and opened a case under articles of “vandalism” and “harassment,” a police spokesman said. The officers, as the media writes, did not see the drone itself, but interviewed members of the delegation who witnessed the incident. It is currently unknown who is behind the attack.
Oesterling clarified that foreign embassies, their representative offices and residences are located on Liding Island, including the villa of the trade delegation of the aggressor country, Russia.
The Russian embassy in Sweden claims that since May 2024, the number of such cases has exceeded the mark two dozen times.
“Comments are unnecessary,” the diplomatic mission said in a statement.
Context
This is not the first time such an incident has occurred.
In November 2024, an unknown drone flew over the Russian Embassy in Stockholm, dropping paint on the territory of the diplomatic complex, Reuters wrote.
On January 28, the diplomatic institution reported that a Ukrainian, who permanently resides in Sweden, allegedly tried to ram the gates of the institution with a car.
On April 15, unknown persons dropped containers of paint on the territory of the Russian embassy in Stockholm – the diplomatic mission complained that this was the 11th similar incident in a year. On June 17, another similar incident occurred.
On July 5, the Russian Embassy in Stockholm reported that a drone dropped a package of paint on the trade mission of the aggressor country in Sweden.
The Russian Foreign Ministry states that on August 21, the Russian trade mission in Sweden was “committed to another act of vandalism using a UAV that dropped a bag of red paint on the area in front of the main entrance to the office building.”
