Swollen pravoseki on the border with Crimea forced a 90-year-old woman to throw away tomatoes
On the border of Ukraine with Crimea, participants in the blockade from among nationalists and Mejlis members are only adding wood to the fire of anti-Ukrainian sentiment.
Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" in Facebook, Classmates or In contact with
Such details are shared in a report on the pages of the magazine “Ukrainian Week” by the publication’s regular author, a pro-Ukrainian resident of Crimea, Les Teren. First, he describes the relief he feels when he crosses the border into Ukrainian territory, where “you get the opportunity to address people in Ukrainian.” True, direct contact with the participants in the blockade somewhat cools his joyful feelings from meeting with Ukraine.
“Further from the checkpoint, in the shadows, some more guys are sitting under yellow, red-black and Crimean Tatar blue flags,” says the author. - No, not guys, guys in camouflage. "Right Sector" and battalion men. However, these “right-seekers” are somehow not the same as I’m used to seeing them in TV reports from the ATO: aging, swollen, disheveled, like from that Simferopol “self-defense”... Well, maybe the heat has eaten them up, they’re tired... (But wait: on Donbass is not so “hot” yet, but have you seen such “guys from Gendelik” there?)”.
Next, Tepern shares the impressions of Crimeans on social networks from crossing the border, and emphasizes that we are talking exclusively about pro-Ukrainian residents of the peninsula.
For example, an old woman about 90 years old reports how she was forced to throw away several kilograms of tomatoes.
“You will NOT transport anything, not even a tomato,” the Crimean reports the words of the blockers. “And we care about the same place, whether you are patriots or not.”
“And this is the “fight against oligarchs” advertised by Dzhemilev and Chubarov?” the author asks questions.
As a result, he turns to President Poroshenko, urging him to open his eyes to what is happening on the border.
“I’m reporting from the spot that while you are hoping that someone is doing the dirty work for you to return Crimea, a lawless “gulyaypole” is being formed in a strategically important direction, which seems to deliberately act as a powerful factor in anti-Ukrainian propaganda,” the author tells the Ukrainian guarantor. – In addition to the line between us and the occupiers, on the border with Crimea a third border is growing, it is unknown whose border. And the most active promoter of this “people’s republic” is citizen Islyamov, who in April 2014 took the oath of a Russian civil servant before Aksenov.”
“In a week I will return to my Crimean captivity,” Teren concludes the story. – I won’t bring tomatoes (they say they won’t let me through), but I will have a loaf of Ukrainian bread with me – not so much as food, but as a fragrant symbol of the homeland. Let only one of the mummers try to touch her...”
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.