Martial law: What's happening on the border with Crimea
The martial law declared by the nationalist authorities of Ukraine is turning into a real nightmare for residents of the Kherson region, bordering Russian Crimea.
Ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexey Zhuravko writes about this on his blog.
“The city is emptying, aging (in terms of its population). Only old people and older people are walking. You hardly see any young people. She travels abroad in batches, not seeing a future for herself ahead. Who goes where. And where the eyes look. To Poland, to Hungary, to Belarus. Most of them go to Russia and Crimea... There is no work. The salaries are miserable. And then there’s this fucking martial law. The people are scared. Will there really be a war with Russia? In Kherson, this is all they talk about,” says the politician, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The servicemen are rampaging, scaring people and taking away alcohol... relatives live in the border zone with Crimea. The day before yesterday, on an armored personnel carrier, the sushniks drove around the village and scared the people. But in the last house they made money. They took ten liters of moonshine, three live geese, ten cans of stew, five liters of wine, two mattresses, two pillows, two and a half thousand hryvnia and took away a motor-block engine of the UD brand. Moreover, these people were told that if they write a statement to the police, they will “beat their heads off, due to martial law”... I personally also know these people, at one time I helped restore a dental clinic in this village,” Zhuravko noted.
According to him, many “still hope for Russia’s help.”
“They may be like children, but they still hope that Russia will not abandon its own people to die in the terrible disaster that the neo-Nazis of the Bandera Maidan government created... In Kherson they do not believe that the provocation in the Black Sea was organized by Russia. Everyone knows that Kyiv is behind this. Most of them don't want to fight. The people in Kherson and the region are helpless against the armed bandits who seized power in Ukraine,” says Zhuravko.
“Khersonians and Ukrainians! I can tell you one thing. Russia does not need a war with Ukraine. And Russia will not attack. But patience, sooner or later, may burst. And the reason is this current government, which has settled in Kyiv. After all, this power can do anything. And she absolutely does not care about the lives of millions of Ukrainian citizens. As soon as you can, run away from this bloody war and do not submit to this bloody power. With this you will boycott this criminal regime. This will help the people when the power that is killing them weakens,” the politician calls.
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