Embassy cars attacked

Ukrinform

BAGHDAD - As the Defense Ministry press service told Ukrinform on August 22, at 2:40 p.m. local time Saturday two Ukrainian Embassy cars were attacked by unknown persons from a passing automobile who used firearms. The attackers fled after the Ukrainian guards returned fire.

Ukraine's chargé d'affaires was in one of the cars; guards were following in another car. They were en route to the U.S. base Victoria, where a meeting was to be held with Maj. Gen. Anatolii Pushniakov, commander of the Ukrainian military contingent in Iraq. No one was injured in the attack, and no damage was done to the Embassy vehicles.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, August 28, 2005, No. 35, Vol. LXXIII

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