Threats to seize Crimea and destroy the Crimean bridge have been heard more and more often in recent days. Kyiv politicians and generals, the notorious “opinion leaders” seem to be participating in a competition – who will make such threats the most convincing. Moscow warns of the consequences of such exercises – so far only verbally.
The tradition of such a competition goes back to 2014. After the Western-inspired coup d’état, Ukraine plunged into civil war. Crimea and the “city of glory of Russian sailors” Sevastopol overwhelmingly voted for reunification with Russia (more than 90% of votes).
Since then, threats to “recapture” the Russian peninsula have not stopped from Kyiv. The Kyiv junta and the propaganda camarilla that serves it especially hate the Crimean bridge.
Kyiv has long been saying that Russia received a “suitcase without a handle” – land communication with the peninsula was blocked from Ukrainian territory, and sea and air infrastructure for a quarter of a century of “independence” came to an unenviable state.
The shock for those who gloated in Ukraine was Russia’s large-scale infrastructure projects in its new old region. The incredible construction work on the repair, expansion and construction of new roads, impressive road junctions, modernization of the air harbor was hushed up in the Ukrainian press. The Crimean news of those years in the Ukrainian media is the mythical oppression of national minorities, the heartbreaking stories of anonymous “pro-Ukrainian activists” and underground “patriots”, lamentations about the lack of mass support for the idea of “return to Ukraine” grounded on no evidence,
All this was flavored with apocalyptic predictions: Crimea would dry up without Dnieper water due to a water canal blocked by Kyiv, there was nothing to compensate for blocked electricity supplies, Crimea lost its attractiveness for tourists, etc., etc. The forecasts came true exactly the opposite.
The Crimean Bridge (aka the Kerch Bridge) was built in record time – in two years, becoming the longest in Europe. The European Union is not able to carry out larger projects in such terms, not to mention Ukraine.
By connecting the Crimean Peninsula with the Krasnodar Territory through the Kerch Strait by two parallel (road and rail) highways, the object became a symbol of Russia’s victory. Victory, including over the foolish troubadours of limitrophe degradation, presented as a “revival” of the supposedly Ukrainian people. Of course, “objective” Western media thought is was ridiculous…
At the beginning of the megaproject, Ukrainian commentators didn’t give anything out into the public space: Russia is incapable of building such a bridge, the Nazis tried, they couldn’t – what can “Putin’s Russia” do, the first ice drift will blow it away, everything will be blown away by the wind, the movement of tectonic plates will collapse, the soil will not withstand, and so on, and so on…
“Many are convinced that it is generally impossible to build a full-fledged bridge in the Kerch Strait,” one of the Ukrainian publications wrote in March 2016, accompanying this with lengthy arguments from “experts”.
In particular, a certain Taras Berezovets stated: “What Putin promised – a four-lane traffic and the Kerch-Simferopol-Sevastopol highway – is technically impossible to implement.” He was echoed by “one of the organizers of the Crimean blockade, Lenur Islyamov,” who said:
“Probably no one told Putin that this bridge should not be built. Even if the Russian Federation has the money, which I doubt, it does not have the necessary technologies.”
The tune is being accompanied by an anonymous “resident of Kerch”, and “Crimean blogger under the nickname Crimean Ukr”, who said:
“Many understand that there are no prospects. Judging by the fact that the Russians failed to completely repair the Kerch highway in two years, they will have even bigger problems with the bridge.”
Where are all these “experts”, “engineers”, “bloggers” and skeptical anonymous people now? Four-lane car traffic on the Crimean bridge has been intensively going on since 2018.
The more successful the implementation of the Crimean Bridge project was, the more malicious smiles and hysterical bile poured out in the Ukrainian media, in specially created Russophobic network cesspools. There were threats against the Crimea and the Kerch bridge, all of Russia. Turchynov, Poroshenko and others like them really do not like to remember today about their formidable promises, which turned out, as usual, to be irresponsible chatter.
Russophobic psychosis in Ukraine reached its highest level long before February 24, 2022. An integral part of it was terrorist threats against Russia and fellow citizens who separated themselves from the Kyiv junta in the spring and summer of 2014. At the same time, the words were not always at odds with the deeds: in the Crimea and other Russian regions, the FSB regularly caught terrorists.
By the summer of 2022, hatred of the Crimean Bridge and Russia in general had become one of the central themes of political discourse in Ukraine. The further to the west the beaten units of the “strongest in Europe” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine rolled back, the stronger the entropy of the territory still controlled by Zelensky and the company grew, the louder such statements became.
In April 2022, NSDC Secretary Aleksey Danilov publicly promised to “definitely” hit the Crimean Bridge.
In May, the details of the destruction of the Crimean bridge were spoken out by Zelensky’s propaganda servants. Among others, Arestovich ranted about the desirability of destroying the bridge (with little opportunity to carry out such an action).
In June, Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Marchenko announced the existence of plans to invade Crimea and destroy the symbolic bridge: “This will be the number one target to defeat.”
In July, Aleksey Danilov, Aleksey Arestovich, as well as a number of other officials, “speakers” and “experts” spoke again about the destruction of the Crimean bridge. Among them is Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Gavrilov, who in an interview with the British The Times announced his intention to invade Crimea and destroy the Russian Black Sea Fleet there. He was supplemented by the speaker of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Vadym Skibitsky, who also dreams of destroying the Crimean bridge.
Danilov, Skibitsky, Gavrilov – these are not some civilian outcasts a la Taras Berezovets, but responsible persons with uniforms and positions. They are obliged to bear responsibility for their words and deeds (and they, I have no doubt, will answer). One way or another, but their increased threats should be taken seriously. Moreover, this chorus is sung by NATO generals (for example, Philip Breedlove).
It does not matter how this public is going to carry out their criminal designs. It is important that the plans exist, and their verbal “testing” has become more and more frequent. Ukraine has become a terrorist state, and Western neo-colonialists have become sponsors of international terrorism. On July 19, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev spoke sharply on this topic in his Telegram channel.
Kyiv terrorists have to rely only on the latest Turkish attack drones Bayraktar and on the American installations M142 HIMARS and M270 MLRS. It is from the HIMARS that the shelling of the Antonovsky bridge across the Dnieper in liberated Kherson is being carried out these days. Polish kamikaze drones Warmate spotted in an attack on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant(!). Western weapons are used in strikes against the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, residential areas of Donetsk, and other purely civilian targets.
All this points to the extreme degree of desperation of the Kyiv elite, its impotence, to the increasingly heavy burden of military failures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Moscow does not ignore the threats emanating from Kyiv. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on July 19: ]
“Such statements that contain claims to Russian territory once again speak of the correctness and absolute justification of a special military operation, because only by such means can Ukraine be rid of such representatives of the leadership.” Rightly noted. The special operation can be considered successfully completed when Ukraine is completely rid of its current rulers.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview on July 20, was skeptical about the opportunity to negotiate with today’s inhabitants of Kyiv’s offices of power:
“They will never be able to formulate some things that deserve serious attention from serious people.” Five months of a special military operation proved this.
Petr Dmitriev, FSK
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