given spains history, what was the Ukraine embassy thinking? According to Spanish newspaper La Republica, the protest was carried out by a group of supporters of the neo-Nazi Svoboda (Freedom) party. Chanting the name of Stepan Bandera, leader of Ukrainian nationalist movement during World War 2, the protesters threatened and assaulted several students who had gathered to remember the victims of the events in Odessa. At first professors asked them to leave the room, but they wouldnt do so, saying they would not let the lecture begin. Students were outraged by that and started shouting Fascists, get out of here! Almost half the faculty got involved, one of the exhibitions organizers, Sergey Markhel, told RIA Novosti news agency. After the fight’s instigators were kicked off of the campus, students put up posters against fascism in Ukraine. Leaving the university premises, still waving Ukrainian flags, the offenders were seen by a van with the registration of the Diplomatic Corps of the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid, La Republica reported. The event was attended by a representative of the Ukrainian Embassy, the embassy confirmed to RIA Novosti. The Ukrainian Ambassador to Spain has later met with the university rector, expressing his deep concern and asking him to cancel Ukraine-related conferences, which he claimed were being used by Russian propaganda agents to give false information, El Pais reported.; rt/news/194864-madrid-university-ukraine-nationalists/ so this little gathering was orchestrated BY the Ukraine embassy
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