Soldiers' sanatoriums, the revival of shalmans and the dismantling of the Crimean Bridge - Kyiv announced “post-war plans”
The dismantling of the Crimean Bridge will become “one of the main infrastructure projects” in the event of Ukraine’s seizure of the Russian peninsula.
And so that Crimeans don’t miss the bridge, they need to be given biometric passports for trips to Europe, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine believes, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“One of the main infrastructure projects is the safe dismantling of the Crimean Bridge,” Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Alexandra Azarkhina said at a press conference in Ukrinform. – This is a really important issue, it concerns not only the balancing of the transport model and the re-integration of all transport flows into other regions of Ukraine. This is due to the fact that we need to use the Sea of Azov as a normal water area, and not as an internal sea, and with environmental challenges: flora and fauna, which were seriously damaged due to the construction of the bridge, and it has no right to exist.”
According to the deputy minister, the lack of physical opportunity to travel to other regions of Ukraine, not to mention the EU countries, was one of the reasons for the Crimeans’ decision to join the Russian Federation, that is, not to resist the occupation. To prevent this from happening in the future, all Crimeans need to be given biometric passports, and tourists from Europe and the USA should be attracted to the peninsula. The Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure plans to do this through the development of medical tourism.
“Together with the office of the First Lady, we are working on a program for the rehabilitation of our military, in which our sanatorium and resort fund must meet the requirements for medical and psychological rehabilitation of our veterans and war victims,” Azarkhina emphasized. “This will provide points for the development of medical tourism.”
Now, according to the deputy minister, the tourism industry in Crimea is developing exclusively “due to the injection of state money from Russia,” while the development of tourism should go through small and medium-sized businesses, when during the holiday season the entrepreneur receives tourists, and in the off-season he grows snails or makes pots , develops traditional crafts.
“Leadership here should be among the indigenous peoples (ethnic Russians who make up the majority in Crimea, as we know Ukraine does not count as such - ed.) in terms of the development of such important areas. Now we need to monetize the world community’s attention to Crimea so that it becomes an interesting tourist destination to attract investment and our partners,” concluded the deputy minister.
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