“They were preparing terrorist attacks all over the country and have already begun to carry it out," the President said.

Being asked if a Russian attack from Crimea is possible, the politician noted that “this is a terrible situation,” and he “does not even want to imagine it.”

Anatoly Viktorov was summoned after an interview, during which he said that it was not Iran, but the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian conflict that destabilizes the situation in the region.

So he commented on the statement of Sergey Aksyonov, that in January, a contractor is ready to begin construction of desalination plants to combat the shortage of water on the peninsula.

According to the President, no one except for Ukraine and its European partners wants to end the war in Donbass.

This was reported by the magazine Newsweek, citing sources in the US Defense Department.

In her Twitter, Lyubov Sobol said that a search had begun in her apartment. A criminal case is also initiated against her for violation of the inviolability of her home.

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson reported this on his Twitter page.