One way ticket/RosSMI
Currently, key Crimean collaborators have acknowledged the situation of the logistical crisis of Crimea, caused by large-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, in particular, in the context of the termination of Russia's illegal air traffic with Simferopol.
“Difficult tourist season”
This crisis is recognized in the statements of the fake Sevastopol “government” and in the theses of Sergei Aksenov and Vladimir Konstantinov about the “difficult tourist season.” The occupiers actually state the failure to bring “a sufficient number of Russian tourists” to Crimea by rail, and therefore take a number of propaganda measures.
In particular, propaganda controlled by the aggressors claims fake “Ukrainian tourists” who allegedly will come to Crimea from the occupied regions of mainland Ukraine.
At the same time, the aforementioned Aksyonov and his henchmen announced in July the start of illegal bus and rail passenger traffic between the occupied Crimea and Kherson and Melitopol, captured by Russian invaders.
Of course, the declared traffic volumes can hypothetically provide no more than a few hundred passengers per day, which would provide no more than thirty thousand fake tourists in three months.
Buses will not save
At the same time the occupiers claim illegal introduction of “charter buses” to Sudak and Alushta from eight Russian cities of the Krasnodar Territory, Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod and Rostov regions.
Of course, such an event is palliative and can provide not “millions of tourists”, but perhaps a propaganda picture in a particular Crimean hotel with “happy tourists from Murom”.
flights” to the occupied Crimea from the central regions of Russia, which are on a flight for up to two days, which “tourists” will obviously not go to Crimea, in particular because of the corresponding level of “comfort”.
Useful terrorists
Therefore, it is not excluded that the occupiers may attribute the absence of “Russian tourists” in Crimea to alleged “terrorist threats” and, accordingly, the complete “blocking” of the peninsula “for security purposes.”Not the criminal conduct by the aggressor on the peninsula in the near future of bloody provocations, which the Russian special services have repeatedly arranged earlier since 2014 with the accusation of the Ukrainian side, with the issuance of fabricated “charges” against allegedly “Ukrainian nationalists” and Ukrainian structures, is excluded.
Perhaps, to organize these provocations, the aggressor's special services will involve organized crime under their control, in particular ethnic.
The structures of this crime are fighting among themselves for control over the “flows of goods”, including the criminal transportation of property stolen in the occupied mainland Ukraine, as well as weapons and drugs through the Ukrainian ports of Crimea to the south; the corresponding “confrontation” has even received a certain public dimension in recent weeks.
