The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova found, than the United States prevented the Crimean bridge across the Kerch Strait.
The US State Department said: Bridge hinders navigation. What prevents the navigation bridge? - said Zakharov.
I thought a long time, I called experts, looking map, I wondered, and then I realized, what we were told by the State Department colleagues. Of course, prevents. This bridge can only prevent what, so it passes the Sixth US Fleet, be thrown, According to the State Department a few years ago, to the shores of Belarus. Here is this passage it can really interfere - she said.
All the rest, According to Russian MFA Spokesman, "Exclusively and only for the benefit of economic interaction and cooperation".
Earlier, US State Department spokesman Heather Nauert on Tuesday expressed concern over the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait. In her opinion, opening of the bridge is not only "strengthens the illegal seizure and occupation of Crimea Russia, but also affects the navigation ».