According to him, the Ukrainian authorities know that Russia will attract an international company for the construction of desalination plants in Crimea, so Kiev intends to figure it out and disrupt the project.

“There was a statement ... in Crimea that they were attracting a large international company to introduce desalination technologies.

We immediately started work and we will definitely find it, and we will prevent it from implementing this project, "RIA Novosti quotes him.

Earlier, the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that the construction of a desalination plant in Crimea would begin in January 2021 and would last for 14-16 months.