A security guard alerted at 2 am that a drone was flying over the embassy and later in the morning, a drone dropped color on the area, report several media outlets.
We have used a helicopter in the search, but we have not found any perpetrator, says Mats Eriksson at the Stockholm police to TT.
Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer (M) does not want to comment on the color attack, but he says that Sweden takes very seriously that type of event.
Have you received any reaction from Russia?
I have nothing to say about that, says Strömmer.
Dialogue with the embassy
The police have been in contact with both the security guard and the staff at the Russian embassy. The color is said to have landed on the ground within the embassy area.
I don't know what type of color it is or what color, says Mats Eriksson at the Stockholm police.
The incident is being investigated as vandalism and no one is suspected at present.
For the Norrmalm police, this is vandalism, but others are looking at this event in the context of our relationship with Russia and the other event that occurred against the Swedish embassy in Moscow, says Mats Eriksson.
"It is serious when a country's embassy is subjected to vandalism. Swedish authorities are responsible for the embassy's security and the police have initiated a preliminary investigation", writes Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard's (M) press secretary to TT.
The embassy vandalized
On Thursday evening, Sweden's embassy in Moscow was vandalized. The opposition Belarusian media company Nexta published a clip of the event where three men threw bottles and sprayed the guard booth outside the embassy. They were later arrested by the police, according to Di.
No Swedish embassy employee was injured in the attack on Thursday, announced Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard on X and wrote further:
"Russian authorities have an obligation to protect diplomatic missions and diplomatic personnel. This has been conveyed to Russian authorities by the Swedish embassy in Moscow due to the incident. None of our employees were injured."
