Energy, trade blockades against Crimea doomed to failure

Recently, a bunch of Tatars living in Ukraine and terrorists of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi organization Right Sector have attempted to impose an energy blockade on Crimea. According to many observers, the Tatar and Right Sector extremists play into the hands of Russian authorities.

Attempting to impose a blackout on the Russian peninsula, the Tatars and Ukrainian neo-Nazis of Right Sector (or khokhlonaziki, to use the term they apparently hate) have only produced the opposite effect and stimulated Russia to accelerate the laying of power supply cables from the Krasnodar Territory to Crimea. Sergey Yegorov, minister of fuel and power engineering of Crimea, told the press that the first phase of the project whose capacity is estimated at 400 megawatts would be completed sometime soon and completion of the second phase with a capacity of 450 megawatts was scheduled for May 2016.

In September the Tatar and Right Sector extremists attempted to impose a trade blockade on Crimea by preventing the passage of delivery trucks from this country to the Russian peninsula. According to Mustafa Azizov, first deputy head of the Dzhankoi district administration, this year Crimean agricultural producers gathered a good crop of grain, vegetables and fruit. Thus the economy of Crimea has become self-sufficient.

Yuri Shevchenko, chairman of a Crimean parliamentary committee on agrarian issues, said the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev would get the worst of the blockade because Ukrainian producers lost traditional markets. A traffic capacity of three checkpoints in the Kherson region on the border with Crimea has been less than 250 delivery trucks per day before the trade blockade. By comparison, the traffic capacity of a ferry service from the Krasnodar Territory to the peninsula amounts to some thousands of delivery trucks with Russian goods every day.

Today Crimean stores sell a full range of dairy produce made in the Krasnodar Territory, Rostov region and peninsula. This also holds true for sausages. At the same time, melons and watermelons are delivered from the Krasnodar Territory and Astrakhan region.

It is widely believed that the Tatar and Right Sector extremists are very strong in their stupidity in these blockades. All attempts to isolate Crimea are doomed to failure.