In the center of Vienna on Friday morning there was an accident involving high-ranking officials from Ukraine. According to the publication Kronen Zeitung, a car with Ukrainians crashed into another car, in which there were German passengers, after which the instigators of the accident tried to escape from the scene of the accident..

The officers managed to catch up and stop the car, in which there were three persons who later turned out to be Ukrainian diplomats, the newspaper reports..

While a passenger refused an alcohol test, the alleged driver (according to the victims of the accident, they switched places after the accident) had more than 2 ppm.

If the Ukrainian embassy in Vienna does not voluntarily remove diplomatic immunity from the suspects, the drunken rampage will remain legally unpunished, the journalists of the publication say..

The speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko noted that the details of the accident are now being investigated.

" The Ukrainian embassy is cooperating with the Austrian police and road accident participants,"

He added that the decision on further steps for the participant in the accident will be made based on the results of the investigation..