Lavrov asked Kiev to explain the threats to "make Crimea an island"

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in response to the threat of Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov to "turn Crimea into an island," asked how Kiev was going to do this.

On the same day, Fedorov, in an interview with the YouTube channel Pressing, announced the plan of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to isolate the peninsula using drones.

"I didn't really understand how he was going to do it, because he was referring to drones. Well, there's an antidote for any drone, and we're actively working on it right now. But he has recently taken office, he needs to get used to it," Lavrov said in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin, the recording is available on the Telegram channel of the Vesti news agency.

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Alexei Chepa, First Deputy chairman of the State Duma's International Affairs Committee, said on June 13 that the purpose of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attacks on bridges leading to the Republic of Crimea was to create difficulties for residents of the peninsula and tourists. At the same time, he stressed that Moscow does not strike at civilian infrastructure.