Last week, the occupation propaganda “suddenly decided to remember” the sludge ponds of the Saki chemical plant, which was closed in 2002.
Recall that until 1987, this plant produced components of Soviet chemical weapons and other extremely toxic substances for industry from lake brine, in particular methyl bromide.
This dangerous production of the Soviet enterprise, located near two children’s resorts, was finally stopped, in its demilitarized component after the collapse of the USSR, by the Ukrainian authorities in 2002.
Back in December 2021, we wrote about the scams around the ruins of the chemical plant, that intensified with the beginning of the occupation of Crimea, when the arbitration manager Vasily Pitelyak, who went over to the side of the invaders, was declared by them as the “liquidator” of the enterprise.
Although the “reclamation” of the plant was declared in the occupation “state program for the development of the industrial complex for 2015-2017”, the invaders were actually interested in both the possibilities of practical restoration of chemical weapons production in Saki and the use of “extra” plant facilities as building materials.
Well, no one even mentions the millions of hryvnias that simply disappeared from the plant’s accounts at the beginning of the occupation as part of the scam of its “liquidators”.
We also noted the revival of the work of the inconspicuous “”Iodobrom” enterprise” “registered” next to the chemical plant, with revenues in 2020 of 80 million rubles, and the activities of the same Vasily Pitelyak, who at the end of 2019 “legalized” through “case A83-15797/2019” the ownership of the plant’s property complex for its occupiers-controlled “clone”.
And although in December 2021, Sergei Aksyonov once again promised “reclamation” of the chemical plant territory, this predictably turned out to be just hot air, both for the toxic storage facilities on the territory of the plant itself and for the burial ground on Cape Krasny of Lake Sasyk-Sivash.
At that time, we wrote that the release of chemical waste from the Saki plant into open waterways connected to the Kalamitsky Gulf of the Black Sea would mean the collapse of unique ecosystems and the destruction of the recreational potential of this region of Crimea, threatening the entire Black Sea region.
The current “media aggravation” of the situation with the territory of the chemical plant is explained simply: it is in this area that the territory of the large-scale “Golden Sands” scam will be located, promised by Aksyonov personally to the Kremlin dictator; it is obvious that now more than one billion will also be written off on the imitation of “liquidation of sludge storage facilities”.
