The overthrow of Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi during the 2011 US intervention led to the country's disintegration as a state, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, commenting on US President Barack Obama’s admission of failure.

Obama said on Sunday that the biggest mistake of his presidency was failing to plan the aftermath of the NATO-led intervention to the crisis-torn Libya.

"I want to refer to [Russian President Vladimir Putin], who has repeatedly expressed regret in connection with the very consequences we are now seeing in Libya, the consequences of the steps taken," Peskov was quoted by Sputnik as saying.

Source ; MENA