Source: World Wide Web
Against the backdrop of tensions between Russia and Ukraine, the building of a Cultural Center for Russian Communities in Canada was destroyed. Comprehensive "Russia Today" (RT), Canada Global News Television and other media reports, the cultural center is located near the "West 4" block of Vancouver City, and someone splashed blue and yellow paint on the door of the institution on the 5th local time. RT said it represented the color of the Ukrainian flag and that the vandalism was carried out by "pro-Ukrainian activists."
RT reported that on the day of the incident, about 100 children were going to attend classes at the community center, but before the class, someone took the above-mentioned acts of sabotage. The director of the center, Arriadna McKenna, told local media that she couldn't help but "sob." Natasha Kovalchuk, a Ukrainian-born woman on the center's board of directors, also said she was "appalled" by the vandalism.
According to Global News Television, Kovalchuk said that the center is a cultural institution that provides services to people from all over the world, a "pureLy Russian community institution", and that it is "wrong" to target the center as an attack.
Kovalchuk also cautioned that it was not the Russian community that ignited the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, "I know there are a lot of people who are dissatisfied and they want to vent their anger to some people." But we are also human beings."
Vancouver police are currently investigating the incident.
Recently, when the situation between Russia and Ukraine is tense, incidents against Russia have occurred in France, Germany, Canada and other countries. According to the media reports of Russia's TASS News Agency, Satellite News Agency, Russian News Agency and other media, the Russian Embassy in Paris, France, has been artificially damaged in recent days, and the embassy glass has been splashed with paint. The Russian ambassador to Germany also said on the 5th that the embassy has received hundreds of Russians who have been discriminated against in Germany.