We have repeatedly reported that as part of the ongoing fuel and logistics crisis in Crimea, the criminal “head of Crimea” Aksyonov has repeatedly tried to make statements simulating “control over the situation”, which not only generated new waves of sarcasm among Crimean residents, but also increased his toxicity in the eyes of “Kremlin celestials”. The population especially remembered gautleiter’s promise to “stop purchasing fuel on the St. Petersburg stock exchange,” which coincided with the beginning of the “diesel peak”.
On October 12, a week after the aggressor “at the federal level” was forced to ban the export of fuel and promise compensation payments to its producers from October, Sergei Aksyonov said that “he has agreements with the three largest players who control 90% of the market”. However, the Crimean inhabitants were not particularly impressed by the news that “gasoline prices will be lowered by administrative means” since it is obvious to everyone that any collaborators will not work for a long time “at their own loss”.
As “blogger” Alexander Gorny, controlled by the Russian special services, wrote doomedly about this, “Aksyonov said that the Ministry of Finance did not support his idea of compensating fuel prices by 7-8 rubles per liter. He solemnly announced this step and call to Putin for support a week ago, but no one really believed it, including the fact of call”. Gorny writes that “either the gas stations are greedy and are parasitizing on the Crimean residents, or someone has a share, or this is the result of collusion and the lack of healthy competition. In all these cases, Sergei Valerievich looks unimportant,” and this is “a powerful image blow”.
Other “media” from the aggressor’s intelligence services also write that “measures to reduce prices were previously taken at the federal level” and that prices everywhere except the occupied Crimea “have actively crept down”. It is also stated that the current “agreement” “raises questions in general, since “inflated prices were not due to the market and demand, but to certain agreements reached earlier”. Thus, it is possible that by frantic attempts to “prove that not all is lost”, Aksyonov, on the contrary, somewhat brought certain events closer, as evidenced by the current “preparatory personnel changes” of the occupiers.
