Protesters threw what appeared to be red paint, to symbolise blood, at the Russian ambassador as he arrived at a cemetery in Warsaw to pay respects to Red Army soldiers who died during World War II.

Ambassador Sergey Andreev was attacked when he attended the Soviet soldiers’ cemetery to lay flowers.

The protesters carried Ukrainian flags, while some were dressed in white sheets smeared with red, symbolising the Ukrainian victims of Russia’s war.

Other men in the diplomat’s entourage were also splattered with what appeared to be red paint.

In Odesa, the major Black Sea port for exporting agricultural products, one person was killed and five people were injured when seven missiles hit a shopping centre and a depot, Ukraine’s armed forces said on Facebook.

Video footage from the scene showed rescue workers combing through piles of rubble dousing still smoking wreckage.

Ukraine and its allies have intensified efforts to unblock ports or provide alternate routes for exporting its significant crops of grain, wheat and corn.

European Council President Charles Michel visited Odesa on Monday, and his meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal was interrupted by the missile attack.

Their talks continued in a bomb shelter, according to Shmyhal’s official Twitter account.

Air raid sirens could be heard across several regions of Ukraine early on Tuesday including Luhansk, Kharkiv and Dnipro.

Serhiy Gaidai, the governor of Luhansk, said the region was attacked 22 times in the 24 hours to early Tuesday.

“During the day on May 9th, the Russians fired en masse on all possible routes out of the region.”

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Reuters, AP