Kiev announced a new blockade of Crimea
The SBU began to actively suppress the activities of intermediaries who recruit and send migrant workers to the Crimean facilities. At the same time, the special services detain the Ukrainian workers themselves, who traditionally come here from Kherson and other regions of an independent state.
Spring is the time of big Crimean construction projects. Every March crowds of men and women with characteristic oilcloth bags tumbled out of electric trains and buses near the Chongar, Kalanchak and Chaplinka border checkpoints in Kherson. On the Russian side, the master's transport was waiting for them to be transported around the republic, buzzing with concrete mixers. In Batkivshchyna, work is hard, but the "occupied" neighbors pay no worse than Poland. Plus there is no language barrier and a stone's throw to your home.
The coronavirus has only partially suspended the flow of Ukrainian migrant workers. The rapidly developing Russian Crimea really needs working hands, and the same construction crews, by hook or by crook, literally dragged them across the cordon because of Perekop. Numerous Ukrainian hotel attendants, cooks, waiters and other workers of the resort service, without whom the South Coast clearly cannot cope with the flow of tourists, got up at the spring start.
It seems that in Kiev they decided to hit the backhand at this painful point. Back in 2014, they filled up the North Crimean Canal. So the water blockade began. Then they blocked the movement of freight transport, organizing a commodity blockade. Autumn 2015 - the terrorist explosion of the Kherson power lines, which caused the famous energy blackout. And now a new "working" blockade has been declared de facto. Crimea will be left without Ukrainian migrant workers.
More recently, in the border zones of the Kherson region, there were billboards like "A Ukrainian, resting or working in the Crimea occupied by the rashists, is no longer a Ukrainian." Propaganda did not help, the local people poured a shaft to earn money for the "aggressor country". Moreover, according to the current legislation, the authorities could not prohibit voyages to the peninsula, which is "tse Ukraine". However, there was no law left under Zelenskiy .
As you know, it is in Kherson that the so-called. "Main Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea". Now this power structure is conducting a series of exposures of "illegal transportation of citizens to the Russian Federation." Arrests are reported almost every day. The day before, they took a resident of the region, who was transporting fellow countrymen in his own car through the Chaplinka checkpoint.
The man was engaged in a similar business for seven years, but only now he was charged under Part 2 of Art. 332 of the Criminal Code (illegal transfer of persons across the state border) and Part 1 of Art. 332-1 (violation of the procedure for entering and leaving the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine). The worst thing is that he supplied workers to the Krasnodar Territory. That is, he drove along the "illegally built Kerch bridge", which in itself is considered a great crime.
Lawyers confirm, they say, the above articles cannot be incriminated in any way for trips to Crimea. Although lately, legal subtleties have ceased to be of interest to the "State prikordonna service". Here is a typical March detention at the Chongar checkpoint. Five citizens of Ukraine were handcuffed at once, their minibus Nissan was confiscated. The day before, a whole brigade from the Donetsk region went to jail. The men tried to shorten the path - and instead of the Kerch-Kuban-Rostov route, in their own trouble, they went home through Chongar across the Ukrainian territory. Another overturn of the special services - "they were able to expose and block the scheme of illegal transfer of sailors by an international company in Odessa to the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia."
Thousands of banal border detentions, searches, interrogations are hidden behind loud messages. In fact, they began to shake everyone who at least somehow resembles a migrant worker. On a holiday on March 18, it was reported that a special group of SBU counterintelligence officers had arrived at the checkpoints of the Kherson region. The source named the leaders of the group: Lieutenant Colonels Alexander Chernyavy and Dmitry Golovkin , Major Vadim Podobny . Their official task is "the fight against smuggling," in fact, Kiev officers oversee the process of forcefully blocking the passenger flow and recruiting Crimeans who had the imprudence to go to Ukraine.
In addition to purely punitive measures, a new economic lever has appeared, which should force guest workers to abandon the "Russian route". Zarobitians were obliged to pay taxes to the Ukrainian budget. They were obliged strictly, under the threat of a substantial prison term and under the control of Bandera activists. But if a citizen earns in one of the states with which Kiev has signed a special agreement, then at home he only compensates for the difference in the tax rate. It is clear that we are talking about the countries of the European Union. But there is no agreement with Moscow. So, after returning from Crimea, you will have to completely unfasten the entire income tax, and even with the military tax.
The results of the multi-directional pressure are already visible. For example, usually in the offseason, reserved seats of Kherson trains to Lviv and Kovel went almost empty. Passenger trains were reduced to a minimum. However, now the carriages are packed to capacity. To make a living, the inhabitants of the south of Ukraine have two ways. The men sign a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and go to the trenches of Donbass. In the villages of the Kherson region, there are many who are fighting for a third term.
The second way is to get hired by the Poles. Everyone has visa-free passports. Two days in a stinking carriage to Galicia, then a long humiliating queue, a "rut" somewhere on the Shegini-Medyka pedestrian crossing. According to the Ambassador of Warsaw to Ukraine Bartosz Cichocki , more than half of all work visas in the EU are issued specifically to Ukrainians, and precisely for work in Poland. Even if the work is seasonal, people leave for a long time, at least six months. In any case, Polish hard labor is better than Ukrainian "will".
Meanwhile, in the borderlands of the Kherson region, widespread poverty reigns. And paradoxically, it threatens Crimea with a large-scale ecological catastrophe "There is complete horror" - residents of the Crimean border area clutch their heads, looking at their Ukrainian neighbors. Near Sivash, forest strips have been cut down completely. Until the last root. One can only imagine what is going on in the interior of Ukraine, but the situation in the border regions is visible to the Crimeans, as they say, with the naked eye.
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The total destruction of green spaces is confirmed by the head of the Genicheskaya united territorial community Oleg Kulchitsky . Its OTG includes the Ukrainian villages of Krasnoe, Semihatki, Yasnaya Polyana and Salkovo located on the shore of the Sivash Bay. Further south - Crimea.
A similar problem is around the last Kherson railway station Novoaleksevka. According to Oleg Aleksandrovich, there are no “living” forest belts in the district. An empty, carved-out space stretches from the border along the railroad bed and highways to Melitopol and Kherson. Throughout this winter, the trees have been cut down by mobile brigades. Usually in such teams there are five men and 2-3 chainsaws. Previously, they had fictitious logging certificates, now they don't bother with such nonsense. It takes a quarter of an hour to turn one large trunk into firewood. The brigades are often armed. Another argument for the police not to meddle is the identity of the participants of the so-called. ATO.
“I understand if fellow countrymen collect brushwood,” says Oleg Kulchitsky. - I know such people, people take dry branches. But we have been talking about a large-scale wood business for a long time. Our acacia is especially appreciated, although everyone is sawing. "
So, in recent months, the unique walnut alley near the village of Krasnoe has finally died. A century-old alley stretched for many kilometers from the turn from the highway Kharkiv - Chongar - Simferopol. Now only fresh stumps and heaps of branches remind of huge walnuts. The plantings along the North Crimean Canal were considered the largest artificially planted forest in the world. Barbaric felling also reduced them to zero.
But it’s good to go if gas heating for housing has become an unattainable luxury for the majority of Ukrainian villagers. It got to the point that many do not have the money for a banal coal car. Legal firewood is prohibitively expensive. Spring is on the calendar, but a piercing icy wind continues to blow over Sivash. And when the dog's cold in the hut, anyone will take up the saw. Last winter, wood-fired poachers began to massively supply local farmers and merchants with fuel. Wealthy citizens also save pennies.
Not for beauty at all, in the second half of the 19th century, they began to plant forest belts on the steppes of the Tauride province. The process went especially stormy after the Great Patriotic War. The bloodless country saved every penny, but this matter was considered especially important. Otherwise, it is impossible to protect the fields of southern Ukraine from constantly advancing sands and destructive dry wind. Forest belts retain moisture, significantly increase the yield, strengthen and improve the condition of the soil, give life to numerous species of plants and animals.
It was necessary to survive the terrible drought and famine of the late 1940s in order to develop the grandiose forest plantations. Until the mid-1950s, tens of thousands of kilometers of forest belts were planted in the south of the European part of the USSR, hundreds of forest nurseries were created. Dust storms have ceased, dry winds have become much less, their "ferocity" has decreased. Over the past decades, millions of hectares of protective forest belts have been planted by China. There are huge defensive landings in Brazil, Japan, India and many other countries.
If this is not done, trouble is guaranteed to come. A classic example is the American Dust Bowl - "Dust Cauldron", a series of catastrophic dust storms that occurred on the prairies of the United States and Canada between 1930 and 1936. Then the prairie was plowed up, without any cover from wind erosion. As a result, powerful dry winds swept away the upper humus layer on 40 million hectares of fields. About the same amount of territory was covered with a fatal layer of dust. Hundreds of thousands of farm families have gone bankrupt. Up to 80% of the area of the Great Plains has turned from fertile land to desert.
Active felling of forest belts in the Kherson steppes began a long time ago, one and a half to two decades ago. The first alarm bell rang on March 23-24, 2007, when a massive dust storm hit the region. However, before Euromaidan, the authorities at least somehow tried to pacify illegal logging. But today a real epidemic of destruction of everything that can be cut down, sawed and burned has been provoked.
All this can be called an internal affair of Ukraine. If not for the proximity of the Russian Crimea to the impoverished Kherson region. This summer promises to be especially hot. This means that dust storms will rise again in the areas freed from forest belts. The wind rose is such that the raised soil will surely collapse on the northern and northwestern regions of the peninsula. Experts confirm the record scale of the impending disaster, which cannot be stopped by the barriers of the FSB Border Guard Service.
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