Tråden om Krimhalvön

The pendulum has swung: Berlin source of the escalation of violence in Ukraine has now become the official Kiev.

Traditionally sympathetic to the Maidan politicians of the German media, particularly the influential newspaper Deutsche Welle, harshly criticized the Ukrainian government for energy blockade of the Crimea.

"After going through this difficult stage, which, I am absolutely convinced, we will go, we will need to seriously reconsider relations with Ukraine and just defend against it. From them we can expect anything [...]

The revision course will be "towards the prevention of new threats", the more that the Ukrainian TV channels now greedily discuss, what would have to limit the inhabitants of the Peninsula, and especially how to prevent the launch of the energy bridge from Krasnodar region to Crimea.

Russian security services have increased protection of an energy bridge, which is supposed to supply energy from mainland Russia to Crimea but is still under construction

53 seconds in – we see the villain of this piece, the leader of the “Crimea Blockade” movement, Lenur Islyamov, a well-known businessman, owner of the Ukrainian TV channel ATR. When Islyamov shows up, the Ukrainian Internal Police troops have to retreat.

1:50 – the NTV correspondent strolls along the border between Ukraine (Kherson Oblast) and Crimea. He talks about the coalition of the Right Sektor, Islyamov and Chubarov, which succeeded in cutting the peninsula off from electricity. After previously cutting off the water.

2:30 – Kherson Oblast is like a teeming war zone. Tents, men in uniforms, checkpoints everywhere, people and cars stopped and searched. But not by official Ukrainian border police. No, by banned-in-Russia Right Sektor [...]

2:47 – shows images of Right Sektor searching trunks of people’s cars. Their goal is to stop anything such as foodstuffs from being brought into Crimea. Trucks carrying goods are either turned back, or allowed to proceed. For a tariff of $500.

4:06 – Mustafa Dzhemilev is the guy who is behind all of this. He makes his money by being the leader of the so-called “Crimean Tatar Mejlis”.

7:35 – Balbek again. $25 million was awarded to ATR for carrying out anti-Russian propaganda on the air.

9:00 – And now we get to the juicy stuff. There are rumors that Dzhemilev and Islyamov were told to blockade the peninsula, on the orders of Turkish businessmen. According to this theory: By blockading produce, they opened up the Crimean market to Turkish goods (fruits and vegetables).

14:26 – American Senator John McCain provides financial assistance, via a fund, to the Mejlis.