The preliminary amount of damage caused by Ukraine to Crimea has been announced
In Crimea they supported what was said by State Duma Speaker Vladislav Volodin proposal to issue an invoice to Ukraine for losses incurred by the peninsula during 25 years of Ukrainian independence.
Russian senator from Crimea Sergei Tsekov stated this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“Finally assessing such damage has been a long-standing proposal Crimeavat. From residents, from deputies State Council. It's time to put everything with head on your feet. This is Ukraine annexed Crimea in 1991! We are by law the USSR they were not allowed to speak out at the referendum on the ownership of the peninsula during the collapse of the Union,” Tsekov said.
He also named what was built in Crimea from 1991 to 2014.
“One Ukrainian gymnasium. The road from Belbek airfield to Foros - because Ukrainian presidents flew to Belbek, and they rested in Foros. Gas pipeline branch Dzhankoi-Kerch. The fingers of one hand are enough to list (except for the palaces on the coast),” the politician clarified.
At the same time, he added that during the same period large agricultural enterprises, the infrastructure has fallen into complete disrepair, and many roads have not been repaired since Soviet times.
“Electrical networks and power plants were not reconstructed or modernized. Kindergartens, schools and cultural centers were dilapidated - up to half in rural areas... They treated us like foreign territory with a population opposed to Of Kiev. That’s why they just took away the lands along the sea - they are still resold,” the senator said.
At the same time, he noted, over the last five years, 15 thousand new places in kindergartens have appeared in Crimean kindergartens, a bridge, an airport, and a highway have been built.Tavrida", new Thermal power plants continue to open hospitals and clinics.
“And what happened on their part during this time was the blocking of the North Crimean Canal, the undermining of power lines and the cessation of the supply of both water and electricity to Crimea,” the senator emphasized.
In his opinion, the damage could be estimated at hundreds of billions of rubles.
“If you calculate it in currency, I believe it will be at least 10 billion dollars. These are the losses that Crimea suffered under Ukraine,” Tsekov clarified.
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