The German publication reports that the Ukrainians were intoxicated.
In the center of Vienna on Friday morning, accident involving high-ranking officials from Ukraine. As the Kronen Zeitung reports, a car with Ukrainians crashed into another car with German passengers that stopped at a red light. After that, the perpetrators of the accident tried to flee from the scene of the accident.
Officers managed to catch up and stop a car in which there were three people, who later turned out to be Ukrainian diplomats, the publication reports.
While the passenger refused the alcohol test, the alleged driver (according to the victims of the accident, they switched places after the accident) was tested for more than 2 ppm. If the Embassy of Ukraine in Vienna does not remove diplomatic immunity from the suspects on their own accord, the drunken rampage will remain legally unpunished, the journalists say.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Oleg Nikolenko noted that the details of the road accident are currently being clarified.< /p>
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is investigating all the circumstances of the traffic accident that occurred in Austria involving the car of the Ukrainian military attache. The Ukrainian embassy is cooperating with the Austrian police and the participants in the accident,” Nikolenko said.
He added that the decision on further steps regarding the accident participant will be made based on the results of the investigation.
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