MOSCOW, October 12. /TASS/. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday pronouncements by the Czech defense minister that Russia is financing refugee influx to the European Union are absolutely ungrounded.

"I can say they are ungrounded," Peskov told journalists. "If such statements were really voiced, they are at least strange."

A number of mass media outlets earlier quoted Czech Defense Minister Martin Stropnicky as saying that Russia was financing refugee influx to Central Europe.