In mid-July, the Crimean Gauleiter Sergei Aksyonov decided to “delight” the population with the story that “the construction of a new city and a road to Crimea has begun on the Arabat Spit.” Judging by the fact that a joint photo of Aksyonov and his “worst friend,” Vladimir Saldo, was published the day before, it is obvious that these statements were made by the “head of the republic” after a corresponding “life-giving push” from their common “Kremlin curator” Sergei Kiriyenko.
In this stream of consciousness, the “Tavria highway”, which will connect the Kherson region with Feodosia” along the “bar between the Sea of Azov and the Sivash Gulf”, in order to “reduce the distance” and “ensure the safety of the route … without additional fences” is also spoken of that “a land route along a sand spit is needed to redistribute delivery routes” of “military cargo bypassing the Crimean Bridge.”
If the situation with the construction of this rock road by the aggressor for military purposes is more or less clear, then with the “town of thirty thousand inhabitants beyond the southern outskirts of the settlement of Schastlivtsevo” the tragicomic nature of 2022 has not disappeared anywhere.
Let us recall that at that time Saldo tried to pass off Kozyavkin’s long-term clinic in the village of Schastlivtsevo as “construction” of the city, in which he decided to “locate government institutions.”
In 2023, the same Saldo stated that “there will be no industry in the city” and “the height of buildings will be limited,” and “financing of work and construction” will allegedly be undertaken by certain “private investors” and not the previously promised “federal budget.”
Apparently, predictably, it was not possible to find “investors”, and therefore Aksyonov said that “the first permanent residents of the new city on the Arabat Spit will settle in it already in 2024-2025” exclusively with reference to his “genetic colleague”, promising “residential areas, social facilities, schools and kindergartens”, in “a few years”.
At the same time, the gauleiters prefer not to talk about the actual practical purpose of the new city, where “Crimean contractors” will obviously be involved in the “construction”, including “Consol” from Vladimir Konstantinov, vaguely stating that “military personnel completing their service” and “residents of the northern regions” will be settled there”.
In such conditions, rumors could not help but arise among collaborators that the Kremlin plans to resettle both the “government” and the majority of mainland collaborators to the “new city”, located not in Crimea administratively, but geographically, after the “negative offensive” to Sivash as a result of a certain “truce agreement”.
