Russian propaganda reported on new criminal statements by Georgy Muradov, this time at the “Russian-Chinese business council at the Russia’s Chamber of commerce and industry”. This representative of the occupiers, among other things, suggested that the Chinese “build profitable logistics routes with the ports of Crimea”, but he did not specify what practical meaning there could be in such a criminal scam.
Let us recall that before the occupation of the Crimea, the business of communist China was really interested in the Crimean ports of Ukraine as an additional way to export Ukrainian mainland products, but precisely bypassing Russia. The “economy” of the occupied Crimea cannot offer anything to the Chinese on a scale comparable to the loading of the port.
Earlier, the same Muradov promoted the Kremlin’s criminal ideas about “Crimean ports for Belarusian goods”, and also promised “someday” to export grain from them, including some “African countries”, promising in June 2023 to make some kind of “exhibition stand”.
However, this whole criminal “string of projects” has a “small” flaw – if from 2014 to 2022 illegal shipping to the occupied Crimea was toxic for most countries of the world, now formal and non-public sanctions cover Russian shipping itself, as well as cargo operations on key groups of raw materials from the ports of Russia itself.
In conditions when the “drawdown” of the operations of the Russian ports themselves in 2022 is up to 40%, no “exhibition stands” from the veteran of the Russian special services Muradov will help to change the picture of the collapse of the maritime sector of the Crimea, and de-occupation the peninsula by Ukraine here is the only solution to the situation.
