Tests confirmed that bird flu had caused the death of large numbers of fowl on poultry farms in the village of Prymorsky near Feodosiya in the Ukrainian autonomous region of Crimea late in December and in January, Crimean Agrarian Policy Minister Oleh Rusetsky said on Monday.

"Today work is coming to an end to destroy the poultry. It´s about 171,500 fowl," he told Interfax.