In early May, the occupiers held a “meeting of the staff of the Yalta seaport” at which they announced that “on May 10, 21 people will be reduced, and on July 20 another 57, including the crews of all motor ships”, as well as part of the “repair zone and cargo port personnel.”
In general, the announcements from the new Moscow “port director” Yevgeny Shmanov were quite predictable – no cargo has been transshipped in the port for several years, and all its other activities are purely “subsidized”, in addition, in the current conditions, the occupiers have limited coastal shipping.
Of course, the occupiers could have carried out “privatization” earlier, but before that there were plans to spend hundreds of billions of “federal program funds” in their own pocket for allegedly “repairing the port infrastructure” scattered throughout the Southern coast of Crimea. And since now no one will certainly give such funds, the occupier groups have returned to the “urgent land issue”
