by Auslander
- Electric supply from the mainland is now a fact. The first power cable from the nuclear power plant in Krasnodar Krai was put in operation a little over a week ago. The amount of electricity provided by this cable is, depending on who you listen to, 200 to 225 megawatts. Last night, 11.12.15, the second cable from Krasnodar Krai was put in operation, this resulting in temporary power outages to several areas in Krimea including North Side Sevastopol. This cable is the same as the first cable, combined the two will provide 400 to 450 megawatts of power to the peninsula.
- Electric generating capacity in Krimea and Sevastopol (I separate the two because they are two different entities, The Autonomous Republic of Krimea, a member of Russian Federation, and The Federal City of Sevastopol, a city of Russia and traditionally considered the third capitol of Russia.) has increased to approaching 600 megawatts of power, this increase due to more gas turbine semi portable generators coming on line. Combined with the two power feeds from the mainland Krimea and Sevastopol combined have approaching 1000 megawatts of power available. This amount is suitable for summer conditions but is roughly 100 to 150 megawatts short of winter power demands. I do not know what plans, if any, are extant to address the shortage.
- There is no shortage of either petrol or diesel fuel. Prices are stable and to a great extent controlled from Mockba.
- The increase of home generators is significant. The first night of the power blockade from Ukraine, 22 November, we had the only generator that we could see in our valley and the surrounding hills. We did take a drive and observed from Radio Gorka to Gollandia Regions, west to east, and there were no lights visible anywhere on the north side besides our house. Not even Militsiya, Fire Department and the hospital had power. Southside observed from the heights of Radio Gorka was almost totally dark. Last evening during a one hour power outage on our side of harbor I counted 27 houses visible in our valley alone that had power including two close neighbors. We did not take a drive this time to count in the other regions on north side. Southside, much of which is clearly visible from our valley, was a veritable sea of small lights.
- Food supplies are stable, there is no shortage of any commodity in regards to food. Prices are also stable and unofficial price controls have been instituted. Many of the large shops, small magazines and kiosks have a generator to keep them open and lighted. There are price controls on basic staples, basic breads, milks and other dairy products, buckwheat for porridge among others. Tobacco supplies are plentiful and those prices are State regulated. Beer, wine and spirits are also in good supply.
- The citizens of this city are in general calm. Any angers at the current crisis are directed at Ukraine, not Russia. Still, no one bothers anyone with a Ukraine flag or sticker on their car or flying the Ukraine flat at their house or flat and even now, well over a year after Ukraine was sent packing from this peninsula, there are two houses in our district who fly the Ukraine flag. No one cares and no one touches them. However, it may well behoove The Powers That Be to fix the damned roads.
- The Tatar Mejilis is a done deal, what little support they may have still had in the Tatar community evaporated somewhere around 22 November 2015. Dawn of 23 November the Tatari around Bachti Sarai woke to no power for their houses, shops, stores, magazines and their very extensive greenhouse facilities in which they grow the fresh vegetables and fruits that supply large areas of Krimea. The possibility spoken by the now exiled to Ukraine Mejilis, who by the by were extensively involved in the destruction of the power supply lines from Ukraine to Krimea and proudly photographed themselves doing the deed, of terrorists from Turkei storming across our border to help the Tatari in their struggle against the Russian occupiers and abusers is a forlorn dream of Mejilis.
- Our harbor is empty. We all know sailors, soldiers, airmen, Marines and Spetznaz who are now serving either off the coast of Syria or in Syria. The Kruiser Varyag will be arriving shortly off Syria to relieve our flagship, the Kruiser Mockba, so he can return to our harbor. I do not know if his escorts will accompany him home or stay to support Varyag, Varyag being the same class as Mockba.
- The weather has turned, winter has arrived. In the first week of the electric crisis the weather was still soft and relatively warm, at least in our little city and surrounding area. Not so now, highs are 6 to 8 and we have had the first hard frosts. That means to the north and east of us you can subtract 3 to 5 degrees from our local temperatures for most of the rest of Krimea. The skies are dark and menacing most days, clouds low and mist often touching the ground. We have now just barely enough power to supply the flats houses and individual houses with power. Many factories and such are still shut down to conserve electric for the citizens. Manufacturies with their own power supply are of course allowed to continue to work as are defense related facilities.
- We took a drive couple days ago, again out in to the country but this time due north past Lubimovka and Kacha on the west coast, then a little east to the truly outlying villages. We had planned beforehand to not hide the fact of me being foreign or us being from Sevastopol. We stopped in just about every little village we came across, in the center where any shops they may have were located. We deliberately conversed in English the moment we exited the vehicle. No one noticed or raised an eyebrow. A few of the villages had not had any electric since the Ukes blew down the towers but most were at least getting something now. All were making do. In almost every village there seemed to be a community generator that ran the few shops and kiosks and were also used to charge cell phones and lap tops. This is a change compared to two weeks ago when the villagers were using auto batteries for that purpose. In the villages there are no shortages of food and drink. We looked in a shop or two in each village and verified these statements. They are correct. Prices are a little higher than in Sevastopol. Everyone was bundled against the cold, it was around +4 at midday. In one village it seemed half the women were in advanced pregnancy. I told my wife to not drink the water there, the last thing we need is a surprise at our ages.
- An interesting little item turned up at a meeting about two weeks ago. Among discussions of the power grids and the amount of electric just coming on line for allocation someone from Electric mentioned that some areas seemed to be using more electric than they should considering the number of residential and commercial meters registered in the districts. Communications were made with Krimea Electric and we were informed they had noticed the same problem a few days before and found a large number of unregistered meters and electric services in every area they checked. Most of these unregistered electric consumers were from Ukraine times but more than a few were more recent, from the current administrative time frame. In preliminary inspections the same phenomenon was found in this city and region, in particular newer restaurants, houses and flats buildings but also older flats where the meter was simply bypassed in the jumble of old wiring in the electrical panels for each floor. The situation is being addressed vigorously.
- All and all, things are returning to normal in this city and region and the villages and towns we visited on our foray north. While there is an undercurrent of anger in some people we talked to it was generally directed to local administrations about the obvious favoritism shown to more well heeled residential areas who seemed to have electric when no one else did.
- Factories and businesses are due to start working again Monday, 14 December, in our city and city region. It is adjudged that the power supply is now adequate for almost normal services and commercial activities.
- The general mood of the citizens concerning Ukraine has changed. Whereas before there was certainly a bit of anger and frustration concerning Ukraine in general and the war in Novorossiya in particular, except for the war it was generally ‘well, what do you expect from ‘the borderlands’’. Not so now. What started with an almost total blockade of the Krim/Ukraine border on the Ukraine side, both commercial and citizenry, degenerated to a total cut off of electric power to the entire peninsula, this power supply legally contracted and paid for very handsomely and to the minute on the day payment was due. Those two actions by Ukraine were the straw that broke the camel’s back. The locals who still fly the Ukraine flag no one will touch, the long term visitors from Ukraine, in essence sitting out the war and the turmoil in Ukraine and almost all fully intending to return when things become normal, I have a feeling they will be in the not too distant future required to register formally and obtain residency permits with the appropriate residency documents and propeeska.
- The shops, magazines, parks and churches are full. Schools are back in session. People are going about their daily lives, living as they want. Children laugh and play, young couples walk of an evening in City Center Park, the teenaged guards at Guard Post #1 at the Eternal Fame in City Center change every hour on the hour, the streets and roads are again clogged with cars and trucks. Life is almost normal, and life goes on regardless of who does what to us.
Auslander
They need a bunch of LED bulbs and flashlights (which can be used for navigating in the dark when lights are off) — real cheap in bulk from China — to make lighting more efficient. Other conservation means can be employed. A lot of power is ‘wasted’ in the sense that it doesn’t have to be expended, and technology makes lighting much better than than the old torches and candles our ancestors used. You can even use solar power to recharge batteries.
This isn’t free — but it’s very portable and easier than big capacity power lines, and actually cheaper in the long run.
(just be careful if you replace traffic lights with LEDs — they run too cool to melt snow off them).
Exactly, You can buy small solar systems off the shelf at Canadian Tire stores. For off grid living, they are cost effective alternative to fuel burning generators.
Lol, when it’s twenty below, you think solar panels are going to be enough? You obviously don’t know what you’re talking about.
I don’t know which temperature scale you are referring to, Centigrade or Fahrenheit but you sound American.
-20 Fahrenheit is -29 Centigrade. If you mean 20 degrees below freezing = 12 Fahrenheit then that is -11C.
Central northern US, Canada and Alaska frequently get to -20C in winter and below as does Siberia, but Crimea is not in Sibera as a map will show you.
The lowest Crimea gets is -5C, according to the graph below, with an average Jan (lowest temp) of 0c, all other months higher.
Solar could certainly assist all year round but obviously works better with longer days and more blue sky.
http://www.crimea.climatemps.com/
my wife comes from Crimea-believe her, it can go as far as -20 and exceed that at times in the worst conditions.
Since seawater freezes at -2C the Black Sea would be full of ice at -20 or below for any extended time and it would no longer represent a viable warm water port for the Russian Black Sea fleet. On land, domestic water lines would have to be buried deep underground.
Inland from the coast it could drop about 5C and if you sat on top of the highest Crimean range at 5,000 feet you could knock off 10C from sea level -but I don’t think anyone lives there.
Sure there’s probably a record low out there in history but all the graphs show an average low of -3C in Jan/Feb.
I do know what I’m talking about. I am an electronics tech by training, have a number of led lights, and have frequented candlepower forum.
You think the temperature has anything to do with the electricity generated by a solar panel from light? Do you what the wattage requirements and capabilities are an LED is and what kind of lumens you can get from them? Do you have anything specific that you can back up to say instead of just bad mouthing me?
The problem with Crimea is the quite short “days” in winter (currently sunrise is 8:16 and sunset 5:06, excluding dawn/dusk yields about 8 hours of light, and many prime “active hours” in darkness), combined with heavy overcast skies (virtually every day, all day). I remember often sitting next to a large window during the middle of the day in Sevastopol and needing a light to read a book.
Moreover, solar is very expensive compared to other forms of electricity, and Crimeans aren’t exactly known for their abundance wealth..
But saving can make a big difference. Unplugging appliances (e.g., TVs, washers, computers) can save each person a little but combine 1 million of these savings and we are speaking a large amount. LEDs or their more affordable HFL light alternatives greatly reduce energy consumption, as does turning lights off when leaving a room. Improving insulation, including double-pane windows (expensive), plastic window coverings (cheap) and door crack insulators (cheap), also help reduce usage.
Replacing all the street lamps with LED and/or solar power is not cost effective for this city. Think several thousand lamps with often questionable power feeds. As for the traffic control lights, we in this region do not get a hard winter normally. The norm is one or two snows of maybe ten centimeters and it’s gone in a day or two.
Not sure how you can say it is not cost-effective… Now that folks have mentioned it, I think solar power (LED, too) makes perfect sense for Krym (I was born there and work in electric industry). The area gets a lot of light… solar panels and battery packs wld be great. Not cheap though… but better than no power. LED lights are very cost effective and greatly reduce demand. Since there used to be wind from the sea, wind turbines also make sense… Thanks for the update (my playground was btw Alupka and Simeiz).
Even without solar but run off grid LED, as much more efficient. Cost effective depends on time frame of course.
The major problem with solar is not panels and LEDs, but batteries, especially in colder weather (LIPO or other high energy density lithium is probably best right now, and are better in the cold than lead acid) — that’s the weak link now.
The other consideration is time — likely faster to put LEDs in than run power lines from Russia. They can be manufactured as integral units and popped into place in high power drain areas.
This might, incidentally, if engineering is put into it instead of using current off-the-shelf become a nice industry for Russia and China for export. China is already big into this area.
See http://szromisen.en.ec21.com/ for one example among many.
This could be an opportunity to turn an attack into a long term advantage.
Totally agree, Blue, the fact is that cutting down and eventually eliminating fossil fuels will be good for everyone. Crimea is also south enough that even solar water heaters would be useful for much of the year, if not in winter. Anything to decentralize energy generation and turn to renewables is a good idea. Glad you brought it up.
I have noticed that solar and led’s are far more sensitive for use in primitive regions. Guess yea, if the department is run by the affirmative action group, they don’t last very long. These are supposedly not needing preventive maintenance but they do need to be looked after and installed properly. Cleaned off dust and moisture.. Which means those supposed to look after them really need to be looked after.. The power have to be within specified limits, the batteries need to be properly charged and taken care off etc.. Someone with a little common sense and a few hours a week would be able to have it running for decades. But from what I have seen, these don’t even last an year.. Moisture and dust gets into the circuits, the battery dont last more than a few months and the solar panels are pigeons chess boards..
They are not cost effective or even feasible in most areas of the planet.. Because maintenance free only means the equipment does not need to be replaced and would last decades.. But it does need basic preventive maintenance of cleaning and safety and proper installation and be treated with respect. Government employees are just not capable of doing such menial jobs… Most technological advancement that works, just works because of side effects.. power lines would kill critters, incandescent lights flash fry any ants trying to make a home inside it, phone lines also work similarly and sort of just gets along with hisses and fits.
Let a few Russian engineers onto this and you can get a solid bit of equipment that’s reliable — and doesn’t need an electric bridge to run them.
Additionally, a major problem with lighting is contrast and destruction of dark adaption for the eyes, which function quite well in low light levels if not repeatedly blinded by bright lights. Street lights in use now often make it harder to see where they do not directly illuminate because of poor placement and light distribution. (Think about moonlight).
For just a hint of what can be done, see http://www.ledsmagazine.com/articles/2005/06/the-case-for-solar-powered-led-lighting.html
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-your-own-solar-powered-led-string-lights-/
http://www.lighting.philips.com/main/products/solar.html
Read a piece about Yemen a while ago. Of course the Yemeni infrastructure, such as it was, is now totally shot to hell. Quoted a local guy saying “Nobody can make money around here any more except mule dealers and solar panel salesmen.”
If you know something works by getting sunlight, figuring out to dust it if it gets all dirty is not really hard.
By the way, if you’re looking down your nose at both “primitives” and “affirmative action” (OMG they’re coming to get you!) types, among others, who still counts as people exactly?
Auslander, I am glad all is well with you and that the power situation is improved.
Were there any reported deaths from the power cuts, do you know? The whole situation and its cause were severely under-reported by the Western MSM and it makes me furious.
How is your babushka behind you doing?
I know of no fatalities from the power cutoffs and I’m sure if such had happened I would know of it. The weather was relatively soft until early last week and that was about the time the two additional power feeds from the mainland came on line. With them electric was supplied to the entire peninsula although many settlements and towns in the north had rolling and announced scheduled blackouts.
Forgot to mention, the old dear next to us is doing fine. With our power supply to her when electric was off she was never cold and had power to cook, watch TV and light to read by.
Hello Auslander,
Many thanks for your latest informative update.
The original “Varyag” was beached in 1920 off the coast of Lendalfoot, about 40 miles south of where I live in Scotland. There’s a monument there now, in memory of the bravery of the original Varyag crew when faced with overwhelming force in the Russo-Japanese War (as it’s known as here).
Best wishes to you and your family.
Regards,
Ian
Just using the occasion to give you a link to a famous Russian song about the original “Varyag”. It’s a symbol of bravery and self-sacrifice preferred to surrender.
…………
Врагу не сдается наш гордый Варяг.
Пощады никто не желает.
………….
https://youtu.be/9OVJCX656nA
Hello Silenus,
Thanks for the link.
At the end of the video you can see an image of the Scottish memorial to the Varyag (Variag) I mentioned above. Representatives of the Russian Navy and war veterans came for the commemoration.
All the best,
Ian
Danke, Auslander, this sounds promising – for now.
What raises my eyebrowes is the overall “safeness” of badly maintained nuclear powerplants on the Ukrainian side. Not only poorly maintained in the sense of not getting maintained, but then even if – with these USA-produced spare parts which are not certified for Soviet powerplants. It is a ticking time bomb. Only a question of when and where (first).
But this is of course not specific to your closer neighborhood, but to all of Ukraine.
Fingers crossed!
It will affect us all.
So true. You may have seen an article that pointed out a near crisis in Ukraine’s nukes which were also cut off from power needed to run the plants when the power lines were cut. The stupidity of the people causing such trouble not just for the Crimeans, or the Russians, but for Ukraine itself is really beyond imagination. It is like suicide by stupidity.
What can be done to get those plants into a safe situation before we have another Chernobyl or even Fukushima?
Sorry about my ignorance, but, being from Brazil, I keep thinking about HOW people kept warm. It is cold there, isn’t it??? Heat is generated from gas in the region; yes, but there is usually a central electric control, right?
Central electric power supply from nuclear power generation, gas based power generation systems; beside that home generators play vital role.
Thanks! I am happy to hear they didn’t freeze…
“..In one village it seemed half the women were in advanced pregnancy..”
Or maybe they were just fat…
Or maybe they were pregnant. We can tell the difference and we don’t have the 150 kilo lovelies so popular in your west.
LOL!
On target!
Lol.. we don’t have 140kg lovelies. Great retort Auslander.
Thanks for the update. Was wondering about mail deliveries from Oz to Sevastopol.. seems like our package to cousins may not be delivered even though the POffice here did not reject it.
Our information is Australia will not sent mail or parcels to any post code in the peninsula. If it got through to Russia then it will be delivered. Russia Post can be slow but it is reliable. It is possible the parcel never left Australia. Contact me, you know how. I can solve the problem.
If you can tell a guy he is a westerner just by looking at a comment then I guess I’ll have to take your word for everything else. Still, that leaves us with one problem though, that I’m not from the west. You have a nice day!
Auslander,
Many thanks for your SITREP.
I would like to know (if it is possible for you to say).
1. How much electric power for the Crimea is being supplied by (Secure), sources from Russia, by way of that undersea cable/s?
2. Will the Russian authorities continue to rely upon, (and kiss ass) the Nazi/Americans in Kiev to supply electric power to the Crimea, for years??? And supply them with coal?
3. Or is there a clear program to (ASAP) link the electric power supply for Crimea – completely (100%), to the Russian mainland (and shut down the unreliable power source)? That would be the solution that appears to be the most logical – (Spock).
What I really want to know!
1. Why the hell deals are (still) being made with the American/Nazi puppets in Kiev?
2. Has no one (in the Russian Government) learned anything from this power shutoff?
3. Just what the hell do they think will happen to the Crimea electric power routed from the Nazi Kiev authorities, if there is a sharpened crisis between Russia, and American/Zionist puppet Turkey, or increased ZioNazi attacks against Novorossiya?
4. Should I ease up on my coffee drinking?
On my peninsula, we have electric power, but no political power.
For the Democratic Republics!
*Please do not read RT’s analysis of the French regional elections. You have enough on your plate.
1. Somewhere between 400 and 450 megawatts depending on who is speaking at the moment.
2. I don’t know, Mr. Putin rarely speaks to me about such things.
3. Krim will be completely free of energy supply from Ukraine by this coming May at the longest. Within 3 years the peninsula will be totally energy self sufficient.
1. The power supply to Krimu was under a signed contract between the Autonomous Republic of Krimea and Ukraine. Apparently an unwritten part of the contract was supplies of high quality coal from Novorossiya to Ukraine, their heating and generating systems are specifically designed for that coal only. 24 hours after the electric was cut to Krimu the supplies of coal from Donbas stopped. The only reason the smallest power line from Ukraine to Krim was repaired and put in service was the majority of that power came to Krim and then went right back to Kherson Oblast in Ukraine on the Krim border. For the entire period of power cut off to Krim substantial areas in Kherson Oblast had no power and unlike in Krimea and Sevastopol the Uke government did nothing for their citizens in the oblast.
2. See ‘2’ above.
3. Think Kalibr, as in cruise missile, followed by polite young men in green appearing in numbers, large numbers, and possibly on the Dnepr east banks. And maybe on the west banks. Lemburg can be given back to the Poles, they are welcome to that festering sore.
4. Morning coffee has an effect on the early morning hand trembles, twitching and drooling. If in your case the first shot of coffee alleviates that problem then continue to drink the beverage. If the beverage exacerbates the problem then try diluting the beverage with some good rye whiskey, ratio of roughly 90% rye to 10% coffee. Works for me.
5. I try not to read anything about France.
Auslander,
Many thanks.
Things are looking better.
Putin should speak to you more often.
Auslander,
Next report please include some photos of the region.
Your detailed SitRep carries the feelings very well.
In crass support of your fiction skills I want to remind folks that you are not only an effective factual reporter and commenter, you do fiction very well, also.
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There is a Chinese company putting the underwater electric cables down from Russia to Crimea. Is there any idea when that will be completed?
Is tourism only warm weather season or do folks come to Crimea year round?
What impacts of sanctions against Crimea affect the average person in Crimea?
Larchmonter,
First let me thank you for your support of my writing both here and involving the book. Both are very much appreciated. As an aside, I started the next book this past weekend. I don’t think this one will take three years.
In reply to your questions and suggestions:
OK, next sitrep I’ll send more photos to Saker. The one at the header of this report is from 22 June this year, Memory Day, the day the second war started. The celebrations in City are strong but we, Red Army, make a convoy of period vehicles and visit the outlying villages and take the celebrations to the veterans there. Flowers and wreathes are laid at the village monuments and the local veterans, sadly fewer in number every year, are honored. As you can see from the photo we have a lot of children with us and by law we have male and female police officers with us to safeguard the children. It’s the law.
The second cable from the nuclear power plant came on line in the middle of last week. That makes two now, both finished and carrying power weeks ahead of schedule. The third and largest cable is due to go in service next May but the word is the construction companies have been ordered to get cracking and finish the cable with all speed. I do not know if a Chinese company is involved in the cable construction and emplacement but I will find out.
Tourist season, AKA the summer plague, officially starts shortly after 01 June when school lets out for the summer. It ends on or before 01 September when school starts for the fall. September through October we get the older and/or childless crowd, nowhere near as rowdy as the summer guests. This year the season actually started around 01 May with a sudden influx of mainlanders for our Victory Day Parade on 09 May. Even I can spot the mainlanders, they speak a different Russian than we speak and I can tell the difference in the accent. We also get a fair number of tourists all winter long. In this berg the winters are mild but there is skying in the mountains and for some reason Yalta on the south coast, whose winter is worse than ours, is a winter holiday destination for the mainland.
The sanctions are not really too effective against us, in reality not much of any affect beyond annoying. We are resourceful when needs be, for instance EU, US, Canada, Japan and Australia will not accept or send any mail or parcels with Krimea Post codes. We send and receive any mail and parcels we want. The food blockade from Ukraine is a joke, it only hurts Ukrainian farmers. 98% of Ukraine foods do not meet Russian health standards and are banned at any rate. We are supplied from both local producers and mainland Russia for all our food, beverage and tobacco needs. The prices vary from a bit below items supplied from Ukraine to a bit above. Basically it’s a wash, overall prices for food stuffs average out to be the same. Dog food, to us important because of our herd, is 40% lower than before, that is high quality foods made in Byelorus that before was sent cross country through Ukraine and now has to go all the way around Ukraine to Krasnodar Krai and then across the straights to this peninsula. Go figure on that one.
I believe I saw something that Crimea? was going to sue for non fulfillment of electrical contract-hhhmm wonder what happened re that…………and contract was signed with Rus federation too-that Ukr admitting Crimea is part of RF incidentally……………………
According to Chinese sources, the company involved might be Shanghai Foundation Engineering Group, a subsidiary of the state-owned Shanghai Construction Group (one of the largest construction and infrastructure companies in the world). There were in fact a few reports in the Chinese media that the Ukrainians wanted to seize the cable-laying ship and prosecute the Chinese workers for “aiding the occupation”, which is of course a threat they wouldn’t be able to carry out. But the company did issue a statement denying involvement, claiming that the ship named had been leased out “without workers or crew” to another party. It seems to make little sense to me, but I’m no expert on cable-laying ships, so make of it what you will.
My own guess is the reports of Chinese involvement is likely, given that there appeared to be various independent sources, Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian, saying this. If so, I can’t imagine a state-owned company doing this without approval from very high levels. But I also suspect the Chinese government wanted to keep it quiet, and perhaps some form of plausible deniability.
Dat was Beu te full!
BTW, I see at /report-from-crimea-by-auslander/
“The power coming to Krimea was actually Russian electric, ‘transshipped’ to Krimea via uke power system, at great cost I might add. Included in this formal agreement and written contract was Russia supplying the ukes with substantially more electric than was ‘shipped’ to Krimea.”
i take it krim is the most closely protected region in the world at the moment. the problems you are describing are temporary and you won’t remember this sorry saga come next year. by may, Rus is scheduled to completely take over the supply of electricity in krim. that’s for that.
i am planning to visit some time. immigration comes to mind too. what’s the situation with legal immigrants, say, if someone wants to make it a permament residence?
i forsee a great future for krim.
Dear Auslander, I am a Westerner and I need to know how I can survive on Krim. Can you please, please, provide us some information? My Russian is not good and I do not know how far some western languages will take me on Crimea. This is a very serious question. It can change my life. Tell us all you can about the situation for Westerners. Does anyone understand one of the languages I speak? Are we at all welcome? Can I access my EU bank account?
Ib and Anonymous 7:45
lb. Legal immigration for the Autonomous Republic of Krimea, a member of Russian Federation, and The Federal City of Sevastopol, a city of Russia, is not easy. Both adhere to Russian immigration law and the bureaucratic hoops you will have to jump through are many and difficult. The normal time frame to obtain legal residency is two to three years and the requirements and stipulations are many. The slightest blemish in your history and you will not get residency. I would suggest you find the Russian Government sight in English and look up immigration. I don’t have the link but I know it’s there, I accessed it last year just from curiosity.
Anonymous 7:45
To survive here you must have a working knowledge of Russian language, either that or a wife who is fluent in English. To come here alone with no knowledge of Russian language AND CULTURE you will not survive a month. Few people, especially those you will meet in everyday life, will profess to speaking English and those who do will speak a more British than American English. Whatever you do, speak your English slowly and clearly, do not use any slang and use simple words and sentence structure. You will find a few who speak German but they will generally be either veterans and survivors of the war or soldiers who were stationed in DDR before 1990.
You will most assuredly not be able to access your EU accounts in Krimea, either debit card or a wire transfer, it is just not going to happen.
Thanks, Auslander. There goes my dream of having a long conversation with Vladimir Vladimirovitch on a beach on Krim in several different languages I know he speaks. I live in Europe and my pension, when the time comes, is not impressive. I need an alternative. Unlike you, I never got my books published.
My Russian is rudimentary, but I do speak some European languages more or less perfectly. How sad that Krim is not ready to receive Westerners. That must change to make up for the loss of Ukrainian tourists. I hope somebody in the Kremlin monitor Sakers site and wises up.
I bet they would accept anyone who is ready to help them.
Including: Going to the front line, when the day comes.
I visited Sevastopol last May, I speak essentially no Russian though I took one year in High School 50+ years ago, so I can sort of read a bit. Fortunately, the owner of my guesthouse, The Funny Dolphin, is fluent in English, which helped a lot. I stayed for a week or so, and had no problems. There was always someone who spoke English if I needed it. Culturally, no problem either except maybe I don’t drink alcohol, or only a little if pressed to do so. People didn’t seem to mind.
I would like to gift a community garden and plant many trees. If I can scrape the money together. Do you think that would help if I wanted to stay for a longer time?
Visiting Crimea was a really lifechanging experience for me. As was Moscow.
I hope to return to Sevastopol in the summer, when the hordes are there, I guess. Or maybe September would be better. Any chance we can meet?
RT has a story out, that as I wondered about in a post before. Turkey may be causing trouble with Russian Naval ships to get a reason to close the Straits to Russian Navy ships. And Erdogan make a statement that Turkey and Russia should “make up”. And not let ” the Russian pilot’s error” keep them from being friends. Somehow,I don’t think the way he phrased that statement will be received very well in Moscow.
https://www.rt.com/news/325840-russian-navy-platform-turkish-vessel/
respect Crimea. I’m coming to visit
Thanks Auslander.
A new zionazi offensive planned against Novorussia?
State Department Urges Citizens to Defer All Travel to Crimea, East Ukraine
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151215/1031751119/state-department-defer-crimea-travel.html
US Department of State is a sore point with us. Mr. Teft, the ambassador to Russia, categorically refuses to have anything to do with any US citizen residing in Krimea or Sevastopol, the standard reply for any question, even the time of day, is ‘go to Kiev, you are part of Ukraine and Kiev Embassy in Ukraine handles everything for Krimea’. We will be arrested the moment we step across the border. The main reason I went to US in October was to get a new international passport. The US Department of State has forgotten who they work for, in other words We the People.
As far as the warning you linked, that has been in effect since before the referendums down here and the first killings of citizens by right sector in Donetsk Oblast.
Concerning Novorossiya, all the indications are that an attack is eminent. Novorossiya now has a very strong, well trained and armed and dedicated army. Another Slavyansk will not happen up there. The commander of DNR Armed Forces has made it very clear that if there is another offensive the counterattack by DNR will not stop until the borders of the old oblast are reached and secured. He would not have publicly stated that if he did not have permission from Mother. If a reverse does happen the ukes may well feel the real North Wind. Mother has made it publicly very clear on several occasions that Novorossiya will not fall.
Auslander, here is a link to a story with parallels in focus with what you have presented us with today.
But do you know what a Qanat is.?
Does anybody in Crimea or in Moscow know what a Qanat is.?
Has anybody considered constructing Qanats in Crimea.?
Does anybody reading this blog understand that 70% of Irans agricultural water supplies come from Qanats.?
Qanats are horizontal wells bored into mountain sides which tap into the elevated water table under mountains.
The water resources of Crimea are virtually limitless. All the underground water of Ukraine drains into the Black Sea and because of the mass of Mount Taurus most of this underground water is constantly upwelling under the mountain. This no mere speculation.
Crimea has plenty of groundwater but it is mostly not under its plains at depths and quantities sufficient to underpin its industrial, agricultural and social potential.
In effect a Qanat sips water from the top of the upwelling. The supply will not run out because it is constantly being replenished. The only proviso being that the Qanat pierces the aquifer at the crest of the upwelling and not a side because puncturing the aquifer at its side will result in water table fall.
Look to the Iranians to help solve the water problems with Qanats.
http://newcoldwar.org/will-crimeas-energy-bridge-save-it-from-dependency-on-ukraine/
Crimea has underground water systems from the mountains. We filled waterbottles from a roadside tap on the mountain on way to Yalta in 2013. Perhaps Auslander could tell us more.
Isn’t that water table contaminated? It would be downstream from Chernobyl, no?
You need to look at a map and see how far Chernobyl is from Krim.
Water supply for the peninsula is adequate at this time due to construction projects from summer of ’14. Sevastopol has a huge reservoir in the foothills north of the mountains on the south coast. As an FTX the Russian Army last winter and this spring completed a new and large feed pipe do near Inkerman, the feed branching out and going to northside and southside. Inkerman has their own supply system from the Black River that feeds in to the harbor at Inkerman.
many people in the north have spent their own money on digging artesian wells. Better to invest in desalination plant and machinary-Sevastopol etc is being toted for massive investment industrially, ship building etc -they will need controlled supplies, in summer has been water rationing before-aged infrastructure and tourists stressing the system.
Quite interesting. For some reason I’d been under the impression a qanat was a sort of covered irrigation ditch, a little tunnel going across the fields so that irrigation water wasn’t lost to evaporation in hot sunny climates.
OT: very important information about the Turkish-daesh sarin connections.
EXCLUSIVE: Sarin materials brought via Turkey & mixed in Syrian ISIS camps – Turkish MP to RT
https://www.rt.com/news/325825-sarin-gas-syria-turkey/
“These are all detected. There are phone recordings of this shipment like ‘don’t worry about the border, we’ll take care of it’ and we also see the bureaucracy is being used,” continued Erdem.
“About the shipment, Republic prosecutor of Adana, Mehmet Arıkan, made an operation and the related people were detained. But as far as I understand he was not an influential person in bureaucracy. A week after, another public prosecutor was assigned, took over the indictment and all the detainees were released. And they left Turkey crossing the Syrian border,” he said.
“The phone recordings in the indictment showed all the details from how the shipment was going to be made to how it was prepared, from the content of the labs to the source of the materials. Which trucks were going to be used, all dates etc. From A to Z, everything was discussed and recorded. Despite all of this evidence, the suspects were released,” he said.
“And the shipment happened,” Erdem added. “Because no one stopped them. That’s why maybe the sarin gas used in Syria is a result of this.”
“For example the chemical attack in Ghouta. Remember. It was claimed that the regime forces were behind it. This attack was conducted just days before the sarin operation in Turkey. It’s a high probability that this attack was carried out with those basic materials shipped through Turkey. It is said the regime forces are responsible but the indictment says it’s ISIS. UN inspectors went to the site but they couldn’t find any evidence. But in this indictment, we’ve found the evidence. We know who used the sarin gas, and our government knows it too,” he said.”
WW3 looks set to get hotter than heat.
The AngloZionist objective, same as Ukraine, to force Russia’s hand.
Action packed and info filled article by Thierry Meyssan below, although it won’t cheer you up. Highlights include 60 NATO vessels moving towards Syria as France redeploys the De Gaulle to safer waters (cooperating with Russia is a bad idea, maybe?). An Iranian sub is now located near Tartus and although not mentioned in this piece, we all know of the various Turkish provocations in the Bosphorus and more recently off the Greek island of Lemnos.
The strategy seems fairly clear:
NATO needs a dramatic Russian retaliation to justify further escalation and allow possible closure of the Turkish Straights. Although a direct blockade is unlikely, because it is too provocative, this is the threat.
NATO’s main move is in aggressive defense of their crumbling terrorist proxy forces, seeking to put the Russians and Syrians off balance and buy time for more direct occupation, already happening in Iraq, then moving into Syria with direct occupation of the so-called Rojava. This what NATO and Turkish leadership seem bent on accomplishing.
Funnily enough, NATO is using Turkey is like a giant human nuclear shield!
Wow these guys are psychopaths. I wonder what Turkish patriots must think, with their country strapped to the front of the bus.
Prepare for more aggressive provocations but don’t expect a Russian first move. According to Meyssan the Russian air campaign has been extended to January and plans for a subsequent offensive are well underway. That is a long time but perhaps this is when we’ll finally see those bearded Siberians marching toward Damascus.
I must restrain myself not to wish them on to Palestine and Al-Quds.
Military operations in preparation in and around Syria
by Thierry Meyssan
http://www.voltairenet.org/article189631.html
The whole article is fascinating, but especially the plans for an uprising of the populations under terrorist control. As per below:
“The Syrian Arab Army and its allies are preparing a vast operation for the beginning of 2016. The objective is to provoke an uprising of the populations dominated by the jihadists, and to take almost all the cities in the country simultaneously – with the possible exception of Palmyra – so that the foreign mercenaries will fall back to the desert.”
“Hezbollah, who demonstrated their capacity to carry out commando operations during their liberation of the Sukhoï pilot held prisoner by militias organised by the Turkish army, are preparing the uprising of Shia populations, while the Syrian Arab Army – which is more than 70% Sunni – is concentrating on the Sunni populations.”
It is very slow going now. Seems they haev to be killed rather than running off.. and they have had years to prepare positions. But at least there is a difference that when you capture back some of the areas that were lost, Turkey and others wont be able to directly assist them any longer. With Russia watching, US is having a hard time dropping supplies to IS as well. With the US lead coalition bombing large number of sand dunes like ever before.. the pissboys follow trying to get a chance to bomb some more SAA positions when no ones looking.
So the SAA does need help.. If the people in IS controlled areas can provide assistance, it would vastly help lower the casualty rates. Yesterday 16 Hez soldiers died.. Thats not even including the 60 shia militias which include iraqi’s.. They really need to get Kuweires air base up and running so Russia can provide ground support.
This morning the first helicopters have landed in #Kuweires airbase in East #Aleppo after the #SAA Tiger Forces have secured the perimeter.
Seems to be an ammo truck as well.. huge blast..
SyAAF #Syria-n Airforce destroyed a #Jaish_alFateh fuel convoy in south #Idlib https://twitter.com/Gjoene/status/676711725429874688
Recent #SAA advances in southern #Aleppo enable access to several crucial objectives (highlighted red). #Syria
https://twitter.com/PetoLucem/status/675676795572781056
Turkish Forces Watch as the Syrian Army Seizes Large Parts of the Border …
If this were to happen four months ago, the Turkish Armed Forces would have most certainly helped the Islamist rebels deter the Syrian Arab Army’s advance towards the border-crossing; however, Turkey is now at the mercy of the Russian Air Force’s fighter jets, who relentlessy target groups like Jabhat Al-Nusra (Syrian Al-Qaeda group) and Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham along the Latakia-Turkey axis.
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkish-forces-watch-as-the-syrian-army-seizes-large-parts-of-the-border-in-northern-latakia/
NEW MAP update: Battle of East #Ghouta. #Damascus #Syria #SAA #FSA
https://twitter.com/PetoLucem/status/676444612580483072
Decision in East #Ghouta? #SAA has captured #Marj_as_Sultan and nearby airbase. #Damascus #Syria
https://twitter.com/PetoLucem/status/676419467459608576
corrected map of N Lattakia, Al Zahiya axis,according to credible field sources
https://twitter.com/Xerxes92005/status/676416551587815424
SAA captured #Marj_Sultan #مرج_السلطان & South Airbase #مطار_احتیاطی in #East_Ghouta
http://s3.img7.ir/AGTRd.jpg
Military Situation in #Eastern_Ghota after gaining #Marj_Asultan Helicopter base, #مرج_السلطان #الغوطه_الشرقيه #SAA
https://twitter.com/Syria_Protector/status/676497757637632000
NEW MAP | The situation in South #Aleppo on Dec 14, 2015 | HD :
On December 12, 2015, the loyalist forces captured Sa’ibiyah, Murayqis, Abu Ru’ayl and Kuraytah. Fighting was also reported in Qarasi area.
On December 13, they tried to advance toward Banes which they claimed later to have captured.
On December 14, the rebels announced to have killed more than 80 «shia militiamen» in Banes battle
http://www.agathocledesyracuse.com/archives/599
Syria From The Funeral of Bassel Al Asmar Leader of #SAA al Hadi Regiment martyred yesterday defending his homeland
https://twitter.com/IvanSidorenko1/status/676489206189973504
Here is something interesting, IDF soldiers make fun of RT reporter on camera.. Make Putin watch this..
IDF soldiers troll Palestinian reporter live report on ‘Israel’s racist policy’ (VIDEO) http://on.rt.com/6zfy
and saudi arabia announces a new? coalition this morning, how many are there goona be-one wonders, based in Ryadh(following their assembly of so called opposition) to be legitimate opposition
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/12050729/Saudi-Arabia-announces-34-country-Islamic-coalition-to-fight-terrorism.html
just how trustworthy is this going to be , or is it symbolic extension of learning from USA-saying you are acting for the good but it is in fact for devious ulterior motives,methods and means, how are they going to do it, not crash with rus and SAA forces
are they gonna use these to support-promote their Wahabi-Takfiri thing? Any attempt at working with Rus?
“A long list of Arab countries such as Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, together with Islamic countries Turkey, Malaysia, Pakistan and Gulf Arab and African states were mentioned.”
oh yes the usual suspects. I don’t know how they relate to the ineffective Arab League.
Note France still needs Assad to go I had thought, but this says
http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/syria/france-no-longer-believes-syria-s-al-assad-must-go-1.1631751..
so not sure-France vascillates in the middle somewhere trying to get away with whatever they can-ie ignore our troublesome Mistral incident folks, never mind………….anyone can get caught up in such situations…………..
the Vienna thing has certainly been hijacked????
All seems to me to be designed to make Rus look little, the minor partner, maybe it is becoming a race to see how ISIS can be beaten first then occupy to break up Syria, then claim they have fulfilled the UN Resolution, and to keep the peace they ain’t moving out.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/15/441765/EU-Russia-sanction-Mogherini-Ukraine-
European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the bloc’s leaders are expected to extend sanctions against Russia over Moscow’s alleged role in the Ukraine crisis.
Speaking to reporters following a Monday meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Mogherini said anti-Russia sanctions are likely to be extended for six months because the peace agreement between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine is “still far from having a full implementation.”
The current round of sanctions is due to end in January, a month after the deadline for the full implementation of the Minsk agreement, which intends to resolve the standoff between Kiev and pro-Russia forces.
So, this is great news, right? We want European sanctions to be imposed for eternity, right? because I’ve read for two years on pro Kremlin blogs that sanctions were an amazing opportunity for Russia…
Putin and President Medvedev keep saying to Washington is:
You are crossing our Red Lines!
And Washington said, and continues to say,
‘You don’t have any red lines.
We have red lines and we can have all the bases we want around your borders, but you can’t have bases in Canada , Mexico, Armenia, Syria, Vietnam…you cannot even have trade allies.
Your red lines don’t exist.’
Your sitreps on everyday life in K/Crimea is much appreciated Auslander. Keep em coming.
Krimea? Crimea?
If you read what Putin wants it comes down to – Russia wanting to be treated with respect.
That the US should look at this position as being unacceptable is compelling proof that if there is an evil empire that needs to be defeated today, it is the US.
I can’t even imagine how “proud” Ukrainians must be about their regime in power:
‘Wack-job populist’ Saakashvili gets water splashed in his face by ‘corrupt’ interior minister”
Mikhail Saakashvili, the ex-Georgian president who is now governor of Odessa, got a glass of water thrown in his face by Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov as an angry slanging match over who is more corrupt spilled over into violence.
The news of the incident comes less than a week after Ukraine’s prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, was dragged violently from the rostrum by his crotch by another MP during a parliament session.
The water fight between Saakashvili and Avakov occurred right in front of the country’s president, Petro Poroshenko, who was present at a session of reform council.
It only took a straightforward question by Avakov to Saakashvili about whether he has any links to a Russian businessman who owns the Uralchem fertilizer company for the ex-Georgian president to blow his top.
“Nobody has the right to talk to Mikhail Saakashvili this way… You’re a corrupt minister while I am an honorable man,” Avakov later quoted the Odessa governor as saying. According to a deputy who witnessed the rant, the interior minister also threw a glass of water at Saakashvili, who added that “he has nothing but his good name.”
Avakov wrote on his Facebook page that he refrained from punching Saakashvili, and simply threw a glass of water in his face instead.
“Never ever in my life have I seen such a wack-job populist,” Avakov said of Saakashvili.
The politicians then used such insults as “thief,” “clown,” “hawkish rascal” and “bag of wind” to describe each other.
“Get out of my country!” Avakov finally ordered Saakashvili, prompting Yatsenyuk to repeat the jibe and describe the Georgian-born politician as a carpet-bagger.
Georgia’s former president was not to be outdone, however, insisting that he was just as good a Ukrainian citizen as Yatsenyuk, with the only difference that he “had not robbed Ukraine.”
“I insulted no one, and did not use foul language in return for obscenities,” Saakashvili wrote on his Facebook page. “I only said that Avakov and Yatsenyuk are thieves and that Avakov should go to jail.”
“I stand by every word I say,” Saakashvili added. “It’s time for the personalities who have brought the country to the brink of ruin to pay for their words and actions.
Saakashvili, who was appointed Odessa governor by Poroshenko, is wanted in Georgia on charges of embezzlement, abuse of power and politically-motivated attacks.
https://www.rt.com/news/325949-ukraine-saakashvili-avakov-rumble/
Having a background in systems, including IT, controls, power management and usages, I agree that all the different suggestions for energy to produce lighting are viable ways of reducing the load on the public feeds. When you use local scale solar, wind and hydro turbines, combined with battery storage, the illumination from LED lighting is almost limitless and will reduce consumption of electricity from the common public power source enormously. The power not needed for illumination can then be used for other purposes such as heating, or powering production machines in factories, thereby allowing people to go back to work. So, the overall premise of the power saving ideas here can help supplement Crimea’s power needs and are very doable.
I am 87 years of age, online since January 1996 and very interested in world affairs. I have lived and worked in Iran and Abu Dhabi (1976 – 1980), so am particularly interested in events in the Middle East; and now that RT has become available to me, I am especially interested in the confrontation between Russia and the Empire of Chaos. Therefore, I would like, very much to make cyber contact with someone in any of the “crisis regions”, such as E. Ukraine, Crimea, Syria, Serbia, Iran or anywhere in Central Asia or Russia. These are all in my sphere of interests.
lots of handshakes and so called “common ground” in Kerry – Lavrov talks
https://www.rt.com/news/326014-putin-kerry-lavrov-talks/
no idea what to make of it except : what what they do, not what they say!
If you like to know what really Mr.Putin/ Lavrov think about KERRY go to FORTRUSS website and take good look at picture of -table- talk …..expression on theirs faces say it all…
ISIS Twitter Handles Traced To UK Government By Hackers http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-15/isis-twitter-handles-traced-uk-government-hackers
Thanks for the update. I can hardly wait until I can come and visit Crimea and SE Ukraine. I am just so proud of the tremendous spirit of the people in these regions. The world could learn a lot from Crimea and Donbass.
“Warlords, and at the same time coordinator of the action of the blockade of the Crimea, vice president of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars Lenur Islyamov after a meeting with leaders of the Majlis representatives of diplomatic missions, announced the start date of the naval blockade of the Crimea. A naval blockade of the Crimea will begin in late 2015 – early 2016.
– Details I can not give you sound. We are ready for it all means that we have. The immediate future – this is the end of the year – the beginning of the next, then you will see in real form, it will be … We will inform you, you’ll hear about it, – he said.
Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov reported that a group of lawyers is studying the possibility of organizing a legal naval blockade of the Crimea.
Energy blockade ended not in favor of Ukraine. If Crimea is partly still uses the services of Kiev, the volatility of the peninsula in the spring of Ukraine will be fully charged in connection with the energy bridge connecting the second stage. Ukraine will lose the revenue from the transportation of electricity.
But the Crimean terrorists are ready to organize a naval blockade and the Ukrainian government should understand that the actions of the Majlis can once again hurt the country. Most likely, because of this blockade viewed Turkey’s interests. For her, the Crimea has always been cherished candy. Ukraine, if it is afraid of the consequences, the right to vote has not, for it is already two years decisions are taken on a different continent.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/49491
google translate
as we know, probably insignificant…whose navy is going to blockade …but maybe significant if it is to be timed with any other Turkish action, or UKR AFU intended actions to Donbass………………maybe gives an opportunity to prove Turkish support is a terrorist action….blow the blockade out of the water, i’m sure Black sea Fleet would like more action..
bit more
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the today’s meeting, the government announced that the trade between the mainland and the peninsula of Crimea Ukraine will be banned after 30 days. In particular, would be banned trade and the performance of any work.
“According to the decision of the Cabinet, which according to the law” On the free economic zone “Crimea” will enter into force within 30 days from the date of the decision, prohibited delivery of goods, works and services for all customs regimes with a temporarily occupied territory to another territory of Ukraine, and from mainland Ukraine in the Crimea, to the exclusion of personal belongings of citizens, socially significant food and humanitarian aid, “- said Yatsenyuk.
BAKHCHISARAI, December 16. /TASS/. The danger of Ukraine’s actions should not be underestimated after Ukrainian warships sailed close to drilling rigs of Crimea’s state oil and gas company Chernomorneftegaz off the Black Sea peninsula, Crimean Parliament Speaker Vladimir Konstantinov told TASS on Wednesday.
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FSB sends escort ship to protect Chernomorneftegaz boring rigs from Ukrainian warships
“The Ukrainian government is very seriously extremist. As long as they are in power, everything can be expected from them and we’re constantly saying about that. The persons who have seized power with sub-machine guns have quite a different thinking. This will be a problem until the Ukrainian people replace them,” the Crimean parliament speaker said.
The border guards of Russia’s Federal Security Service had to send a patrol boat on Tuesday to protect Chernomorneftegaz rigs from Ukrainian warships, which had displayed increased interest in the work of the Russian state company in the Black Sea.
In particular, the Ukrainian military tried to get information on the number of people working on the platform of the Odessa hydrocarbon deposit, took photos and made video footage of equipment.
Meanwhile, Crimean Head Sergey Aksyonov told TASS he saw no danger from Ukraine for Chernomorneftegaz drilling platforms.
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Russian security service denies reports of Black Sea incident with Turkish ship
“No one can threaten Russia with a military force. Well, some ships passed by and perhaps some other vessels will sail nearby tomorrow. We generally do not respond to this. I personally do not see any threat. Well, who can threaten Russia? Especially Ukraine’s threat looks ludicrous,” the Crimean head said.
Ukrainian Defense Ministry is trying to re-enter service missiles “Pechora”, which remained in the country since the Soviet times.
These missiles were adopted back in 1961. Their production has been concentrated on the territory of Russia, Ukraine therefore has no manufacturing base for the production of such a powerful weapon. It is reported online resource Ukraina.ru, citing a source in the Defense Ministry.
This anonymous source, in particular, said: “We were in such conditions, we are making every effort to modernize what we have. The other reality we have. Those American Patriot will cost much more expensive. ” In addition, he reported that the missiles to be used against Russian aircraft, which can supposedly make a bombardment of Ukraine.
Now Ukraine is actively working on the modernization of missile systems “Pechora”. Defense Ministry is waiting for instructions from the authorities on the testing of weapons in the area of Tuzla. This sand island area of 3.5 square kilometers in the Kerch Strait Azov Sea, Kerch Peninsula of Crimea between the west and the Taman Peninsula of the Krasnodar Territory in the east.
Note: in this area must go through Kerch bridge, which will connect Crimea and Krasnodar region Rosii.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/49456
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