OREANDA-NEWS Finnish Ambassador Antti Helanter was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, where he was strongly protested. As stated in the message of the department, this is due to the detention by the Finnish customs authorities of cultural values belonging to Russian museums.

«A strong protest has been declared in connection with the detention by the Finnish customs authorities of cultural values belonging to Russian museums that were exported in transit through Finland to Russia after the exhibitions in Italy and Japan under their state guarantees of inviolability and return to the Russian Federation», the message says.

Earlier, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that he decided to summon Russian Ambassador to Paris Alexei Meshkov on April 7. In his Twitter account, the head of French diplomacy explained that he made this decision after the reports of the Russian embassy about the situation in Bucha.

«Faced with the obscenity and provocative message of the Russian Embassy in France about the outrages in Bucha, I decided to summon the Russian ambassador to the Foreign Ministry this morning», Le Drian said.

In the social networks of the Russian embassy in Paris, several posts have been posted in recent days regarding the events in Bucha. For example, on April 6, the diplomatic mission posted a quote from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in which he stated about the «Western Ukrainian propaganda machine» that is trying to «whip up hysteria» around the video from Bucha. He called the situation around the Ukrainian city a pretext for sabotaging the ongoing negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.