Showing posts with label Crimea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crimea. Show all posts

Saturday, 6 March 2021

Ukraine pledges to sabotage Russian efforts to avert humanitarian crisis In Crimea amid water shortages

Chaos in Ukraine Making ‘Epic Comeback’ With Blessing of New Biden Administration

5 March, 2021

New government crackdowns on opposition in Ukraine include banning of websites and television networks. Chaos is making an epic comeback with “the full backing of the bastion of Democracy – Washington.”

SouthFront reports…

In Ukraine, the situation is slowly, but surely, falling into even a deeper abyss, full of violence and corruption – in the name of democracy for sure.

Joe Biden entered the White House, a true Ukrainian friend, who is prepared to support Kiev to the ends of the Earth. Especially after the investigations into him and his son Hunter Biden over stealing billions faded into obscurity.

As such, the internal situation in Ukraine is worrisome for even the most disillusion observer.

It all started with the shutting down of opposition TV channels and immediately moved to attacks on the largest and most popular opposition party – “Opposition Platform – For Life!”. Opposition leaders were then sanctioned, for being “Putin agents”, and many of its members were openly censored and persecuted. Then it came down to censoring and persecuted another well-known opposition figure – Anatoly Shariy, and his party.

Websites were pulled down, accounts were banned, cases were opened against those against President Volodymyr Zelensky and his “Servant of the People” party.

Crumbling power is being consolidated by the small clique of Nazi apologists and foreign puppets, which in the current format appears to be represented by President-Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky. Any resistance is being snuffed out. This is how democracy works in Ukraine, and it has the full backing of the bastion of Democracy – Washington.

Continue this story at SouthFront

One of the reservoirs in the Crimean capital of Simferopol is almost running dry as the Black Sea peninsula's water crisis continues to worsen. As things stand, many parts of the region have introduced rationing.

Crimea has suffered from water shortages since 2014, when the Ukrainian government built a dam on a canal that had previously provided around 85 percent of the area's water. The infrastructure was constructed when Moscow and Kiev were both part of the Soviet Union.

Since the blockade, Russia has repeatedly accused Ukraine of human rights violations, and has criticized international organizations for remaining silent on the matter.

“The reserves of water in the Simferopol reservoir are almost depleted,” said Vladimir Bazhenov, the head of Crimean Water, calling the inflow “infinitesimal.”

ALSO ON RT.COMYalta restricts water to just six hours a day as Ukraine’s supply blockade takes its toll on Crimea

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Russian officials have hit back at Ukraine after Kiev revealed plans to hinder Crimea’s attempts to avert a humanitarian crisis due to a lack of water. Many local residents have been affected by restrictions.

In many parts of the peninsula, water is issuing from taps for only six hours a day. Crimea has experienced water shortages since 2014, when the Ukrainian government built a dam on a canal that had previously provided around 85 percent of the area’s water. The canal was constructed by Moscow, when Russia and Ukraine were both part of a union state.

Since the blockade, Russia has repeatedly accused Kiev of human rights violations. However, Western nations have remained remarkably silent on the matter, as have non-governmental organizations concerned with human rights.

In order to tackle the water shortage, the Crimean authorities have committed to building a desalination plant from next month, with the possibility of constructing more in the future. On Thursday, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmitry Kuleba revealed Kiev would step in to prevent Russia from alleviating the problem.

“In Crimea, they said that they are trying to attract a large international company to implement desalination technology,” Kuleba said. “[After the announcement] we immediately started work … and we will prevent it from implementing this project."

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Saturday, 9 December 2017

the US is now basically permanently parked at the entrance into Russia's main Black Sea port.

US Keeps Loitering off the Coast of Russian Naval Base in Sevastopol. Russia Adds a Second S-400 Air Defense Battery


You only hear about it when the US complains about the Russians intercepting them, but the US is now basically permanently parked at the entrance into Russia's main Black Sea port.

7 December, 2017

The Russian news agency TASS is reporting that Russia will soon deploy a second S-400 air defense battery to Crimea. The missiles are currently in pre-deployment tests in the Astrakhan region in southern Russia.

The first battery in Crimea has been operational since January of this year.

The context for this deployment is that US spy planes have been carrying out relentless surveillance of Russia's main Black Sea naval base in Sevastopol, Crimea. The American P-8 and EP-3 surveillance planes take off from Bulgaria, fly over to the outskirts of Sevastopol, and then keep loitering on the edges of Russia's territorial waters for hours on end. The media only reports on it when the US complains about an "unsafe" Russian interception of these planes, but they go on constantly.
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Russia's territorial waters extend 12 nautical miles off the coast (14 miles or 22 kilometers).

Monday, 30 October 2017

CRIMEA; the Way Back Home

If you haven't seen this documentary with the Russian side of the story behind the events in Crimea here is your chance.

EXCLUSIVE: The famous Russian documentary on Crimea with Putin FINALLY with SUBS






Russia Insider


Special thanks to Rossiya 24 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_IE... for allowing us to post the documentary on our channel


This is Andrey Kondrashov's documentary on the return of Crimea to Russia, aired in Russia on March 15, and now available with English subtitles. It has been a year since Crimeans took to the polls to vote for returning to their Motherland and leaving wretched Ukraine behind. The Western powers - led, as ever, by the US and UK - are determined to portray this momentous historic event as an imperial land-grab by Russia, and that it caused the subsequent civil war between Kiev and the breakaway provinces in the country's East.


However, as this excellent documentary shows, the Russian government could see that the violent manner in which the elected Ukrainian leader Yanukovich had been ousted from power - with American fingerprints all over it - meant chaos would soon spread throughout Ukraine, and that the majority ethnic Russian population in Crimea would be among the worst hit by neo-Nazi militias terrorizing anyone whom they considered 'insufficiently loyal' to the US-selected regime. 

When President Yanukovich fled the capital on February 22nd 2014, President Putin set in motion a series of responses that would present the first real (and successful) challenge to American imperial hegemony.


In this must-watch documentary, you'll learn:


  • how Russia saved President Yanukovich of Ukraine
  • how Crimeans returning from revolution in Kiev tasted the the rage of the Right Sektor 'Maidan orcs'
  • how members of the Berkut police force escaped to Crimea and helped set up people's militias to defend the peninsula, not least by preventing Kiev military jets from landing at Sevastopol's airport
  • how these civilian militias defended against an organized takeover of the Crimean Parliament in Sevastopol
  • that most Crimean Tatars sided with the ethnic Russian population, despite efforts by the coup organizers to generate an ethnic split between them
  • how the militias came together to blockade repeated efforts by the 'Maidan orcs' (Right Sektor fascists) to enter the peninsula - by road, train and air
  • how the Crimean Referendum was enacted following near unanimous support from the people's representatives in the Crimean Parliament
  • how Berkut forces were joined by Kuban Cossacks from across the Black Sea region, including veterans of Russia's Afghan War, to defend Crimea from efforts by the new regime to send in weapons and explosives
  • how, having prevented Kiev from deploying 'Maidan orcs' via air, rail and road, Russia's Black Sea Fleet blockaded the Ukrainian navy from leaving its home port
  • how the Russian military placed the brand new Coastal Defence System 'Bastion-P' at locations along Crimea's southern coast. Once activated, the approaching USS Donald Cook Destroyer turned around at full-speed before Russian military jets chased the American warship south
  • how the 'Night Wolves' biker gang joined in the defence of Crimea in Yalta by kidnapping Ukrainian General Mikhail Koval and uncovering weapons caches left by the Ukies prior to the coup
  • how the Crimean citizen militias and Russian soldiers stationed in Sevastopol peacefully neutralized 20,000 Ukrainian forces stationed on the peninsula, many of whom then defected to Russia