Russian embassy in Ireland gets roasted over its outraged statement about a 'violation' of its territory

The Russian embassy in Ireland faced mockery and ridicule on social media after it released a statement of outage against a "violation" of its territory.

The embassy released a statement from its official social media account Monday decrying an incident where a man drove a truck into the embassy gates.

"On March 7, 2022, 13:30pm, a large truck came over to the gates of the Embassy, pulled back and torn down the gates of the Embassy," the statement read in part.

"The Embassy strongly condemns this criminal act of insanity directed against peaceful diplomatic mission," the statement continued.

"The incident is cause of extreme concern. We believe that no people of sound mind could support such senseless and barbaric actions," the statement concluded.

Here's the statement from the embassy:

Many took to social media to excoriate the embassy for its outrage over such a small matter when Russia was accused of purposely shelling innocent civilians in Ukraine.

"It's not nice to have your home invaded and vandalised for no reason, is it?" replied photographer Nicolas Chinardet.

"My Irish sources have informed me that the Russian Embassy gates attacked the lorry and it was forced to take special operations to save itself," joked another critic.

"You're gonna s*** when you see what your armed forces are up to in Ukraine," replied another detractor.

"After invading Ukraine and murduring innocent men, women, children and animals, the Russian embassy did in fact believe they could support senseless and barbaric actions," responded another user.

"I understand diplomacy, but expecting Irish to put up with Russians on their soil while Russians invade a country? Laughable," read another tweet.

"Wouldn’t be going about drawing too much attention to who is or isn’t violating international conventions at the moment, given the circumstances," said another user.

Others replied by posting scenes of horror from the invasion.

Still others pointed out that the embassy failed to tell the truth in its relatively short statement, since the driver of the bus had been arrested despite the embassy's claim that the Irish officers stood by and not intervened.

The man, later identified as Desmond Wisley, told onlookers that he had been overcome by photographs of a family that was killed by Russian forces in Ukraine.

"I want the Ambassador and his colleagues to leave this country, leave this free country," he said. "It’s about time we stood up."

Video of the truck ramming into the embassy were circulated online.