Protesters in Poland covered the country’s Russian ambassador in red paint as he attended a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the end of the second world war.

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Sergei Andreev was attending a wreath-laying ceremony at a Warsaw cemetery where he and staff were surrounded by demonstrators chanting 'fascists', 'killers', 'shame' and 'fuck Putin'. Many protesters carried Ukrainian flags while some waved the white-red-white flag that has come to symbolise the Belarusian opposition movement. Before leaving, Andreev told cameras he was proud of his country and his president

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