On May 16, the occupiers’ “Crimean” propaganda simultaneously released two characteristic “news items” about the so-called “land corridor” from Russia to the peninsula.
According to the first, “summer tourists” will allegedly “travel along the corridor” through Mariupol and Melitopol, and for them, “more than 30 electric charging stations are operating along the route from Rostov-on-Don to Simferopol,” which are “located in cities and towns, as well as along the main route of the R-280 highway.”
As a reminder, after the occupiers closed the “Crimean Bridge” to electric and hybrid vehicles, such vehicles can only be transported from Russia to Crimea via the aforementioned “corridor.”
However, according to the corresponding “official map of electric vehicle charging stations” posted on the Yandex platform, there are not 30, but “as many as” three electric vehicle charging stations listed between Russian territory and Crimea on the occupied Ukrainian mainland.
Furthermore, all of them are located not on the aforementioned highway, but far from it, in the urban areas of those same Berdyansk, Melitopol, and Mariupol, at bus stations, or at gas stations seized in 2022.
A second “news item” about the same “corridor,” this time from Russian “war correspondents” Alexey Sukonkin and Dmitry Steishin, helps to understand the “zest” of this situation. They claimed that drones have been spotted along the bypass road of the same Mariupol, “searching for targets to engage,” and even acknowledged that “mainly” the aggressor’s “fuel trucks and other military vehicles” are being targeted.
Thus, if Russian tourists traveling along the “land corridor” existed not only in the “reports” of fake “authorities” and in local propaganda, then outside the window of their electric vehicles they would be able to observe a host of interesting things and processes involving the use of modern unmanned technology.
