“This is absolute stupidity. This is an artificial escalation of anti-Russian hysteria in Ukraine, unfortunately, which in no way helps to resolve the situation in the southeast, ”Peskov answered the question if Russia has plans to invade the territory of Ukraine to provide Crimea with water.

The commander of the Ukrainian Navy, Aleksey Neizhpapa, in particular, said that in Kiev they were expecting an attack by the Russian army in the Kherson region with the aim of letting the Dnieper water into the Crimea.

Earlier, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma committee on international affairs, Dmitry Novikov, in an interview with RT, commented on the statement of the commander of the Ukrainian Navy.