MojNews-Russia has critcised what it described as attempts to interfere in Venezuela's domestic affairs after major European countries recognised Juan Guaido as the South American country's interim leader.    

"Attempts to legitimise usurped power" constituted "interference in Venezuela's internal affairs," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.    

Such interference, he added, could not facilitate the "peaceful, effective and lasting settlement of the crisis the Venezuelans are going through".  

Peskov reiterated Moscow's position that only the people of Venezuela could solve the crisis "which they should get through on their own".