In the last days of October, Crimean collaborators and the aggressor-controlled “media” began to describe a crisis in the sphere of city bus transportation, which is attributed to a “shortage of drivers”.
Among other things, on October 28 in Kerch, for this reason, a number of city routes were announced to be cancelled, and at the same time the “authorities” are trying to justify themselves by the unwillingness of Crimean residents to get jobs as drivers for a “salary of 50 thousand rubles”.
Describing a similar situation in Simferopol and Feodosia, the “authorities” declare an attempt to “solve the personnel problem” by means of a “hostel for out-of-town specialists” in the “Crimean capital”.
In addition to the simple reasoning that even if this helps to gather Crimean drivers in Simferopol, it will clearly not improve the situation in other cities and towns of the peninsula; in the center of the region, “positive shifts” have not yet been observed either.
The Yevpatoria “authorities” complain that “the buses are standing without drivers”, since the “40 thousand” offered there allegedly “do not compete” with construction sites where “drivers receive 90 thousand rubles”.
However, Crimean residents in social networks express a different opinion, indicating that either the drivers “do not want to, which means that something is not as purple as it is described … which means that something is wrong”, or that “the declared salary is not worth such work”, or that “there is no one to go”.
The last reasoning is clearly the most correct – Crimean drivers were massively “mobilized” into the Russian army in 2022, and then lured into a “contract” in every possible way, promising “millions”; however, many of those who believed it have either already been killed or received injuries incompatible with the work of a driver.
Also, the collaborators themselves actually refute the talk about “luring” bus drivers to “civilian” construction sites and enterprises on the peninsula.
Thus, Oksana Afanasyeva, a former top manager of the “Monolith” construction structure from the Konstantinov clan and now an “analyst of the regional labor market,” recently stated that even for 200 thousand rubles a month, developers from the occupiers cannot find qualified specialists in this field.
However, the carriers have another problem, which the occupation “authorities” are talking about even less, this is the constant rise in the price of fuel. At the end of October, gasoline prices on the peninsula reached 60 rubles per liter of AI-92 gasoline and almost 68 rubles for AI-95 gasoline, as well as almost 70 rubles per liter of diesel fuel.
