The show “blockade of Crimea” has begun
In the Kherson region, on the border with Crimea, the action promised by the Crimean Tatar Mejlis and the Right Sector to “blockade” the peninsula began, within the framework of which they promised not to allow cars with food to pass towards Simferopol - so as not to “feed the occupiers.”
The organizers brought barrels, tires, special equipment for stopping cars, flags to the border and brought the press.
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“The police proactively began turning around trucks going to Crimea. I wonder who the Mejlis and the PS will now block the road to... the drivers themselves say there is a rumor that the ban on the import of goods will be in effect for one day,” reports Andrey Pavlovsky, a journalist for the Ukrainian Channel 17.
“It is unclear who the protesters will turn around - there are no trucks near Chongar. On the way to the border, the truck driver said that the traffic police told drivers not to go to the border today. Another interlocutor, a customs officer, emphasized that they do not forcibly deport anyone - they only recommend them. How long this will last, none of them knows,” Odessa journalist Valeria Ivashkina, in turn, writes on her social network page.
The head of the Mejlis, Refat Chubarov, who arrived at the scene, confirmed that the purpose of the action was the creation of the so-called. “food hubs” on the border, where Crimeans suffering from food shortages will allegedly come to buy food.
“I wonder if it was Russian food producers who paid the event’s organizers, or if the organizers themselves are naturally gifted in alternatives?” – Kiev lawyer Tatyana Montyan comments on the “blockade of Crimea”.
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