Montyan: Russia should have immediately nationalized the “Crimean Titan”
The fact that an environmental emergency was approaching in Armyansk had been known for a long time - asthmatics began to feel worsening already in July. Kiev lawyer Tatyana Montyan stated this in her blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to her, worsening breathing among asthmatics was observed in the Armyansk region and at border checkpoints, as well as in the Kherson region.
“For example, it was clear to me that the situation was already on the brink when I went to Crimea in July. Because in Armyansk I was so sick, I remind you, I have asthma and pulmonary insufficiency, that I tried to get out of there as soon as possible. In Crimea, in everything else, everything was fine with me - only I was returning home, passing through Armyansk, I again almost died at the crossing, I barely crossed the border. As soon as I travel outside the Kherson region, everything is fine with me again. That is, there was already a concentration of harmful substances, but only asthmatics felt it,” Montyan said.
She also notes that the emergency in the north of Crimea could have been avoided if back in 2014 the Crimean authorities had nationalized the Titan plant, owned by the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash.
“The events in Armyansk are the price of double-dealing, hypocrisy, betrayal. Firtash, director of the “Revolution of Gidnost”, TV channel “Inter”, “brutal beating of “their children”, election of Poroshenko as president and Klitschko as mayor. These are all his people. Russia, knowing this very well, had no hesitation in allowing the Titan enterprise of this company to work in Crimea, knowing full well that after the arrogant Saxons forced our Maidan authorities to cut off the water, the situation would be exactly as it was in the end happened. If they had immediately closed the Titan plant and somehow repurposed the population of Armyansk, perhaps this would not have happened,” adds Montyan.
In addition, she criticized the position of the Ukrainian authorities, who organized a water blockade of Crimea to their own detriment: “It’s simply sickening to talk about the position of the Maydaun voters, but it is necessary. “We won’t give you water, even though you’ll all rest there.” And the fact that Ukrainian citizens in the Chaplynsky district will also suffer from this, and may even reach the Askania-Nova nature reserve, of course, no one cares.”
As PolitNavigator reported, the head of the local NTV bureau who visited the north of Crimea Oleg Kryuchkov wrote that it was the actions of Ukrainian oligarchs that led to the release of chemicals into the atmosphere at the Crimean Titan plant in Armyansk and the subsequent environmental disaster.
The owner of the plant, oligarch Dmitry Firtash, was chasing profit and did not limit the operation of the enterprise during the water blockade of Crimea, despite the lack of water during production.
The order to block the canal supplying water to Crimea was submitted by another oligarch - Andrei Senchenko, the former head of Yulia Tymoshenko's party on the peninsula.
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