A number of structures, associated with occupied Crimea were noted among the persons involved in the 17th package of EU sanctions, published on May 20. In this vein, we can note the “Lobaev Arms Trading House” from Tarusa near Moscow, about whose cooperation with the Crimean “authorities” we wrote in January 2023.
Then the beneficiary of this arms factory and the “chief designer” of the aggressor Vladislav Lobaev decided to use the criminal “head of Crimea” Sergei Aksyonov for “live advertising” of his products, by creating a “new sniper unit” and training it on the basis of the “165th training center”, probably at the military training ground in Perevalne (Angara).
Sanctions have also been imposed against the illegal “unitary enterprise” “State Grain Operator” from occupied Melitopol, the use of which by the invaders for the transfer of grain by sea through Crimean ports has been covered by us many times.
In addition, sanctions have also been imposed against the “Feodosia Optical Plant”, which, according to the European Commission, produces “components (including sight-guidance devices and rangefinders) used in military equipment, such as appliances that are part of the 1A40 and 1A40-1 rangefinder sights, which are installed on T-72 tanks” used by the aggressor.
We wrote about the scams with this plant back in 2021, describing its then “sale” by the occupiers to Simferopol businessman Vladimir Maslov for “as much as” 10 million rubles.
This “favor” was not surprising, since Maslov had a long-standing business partnership with the so-called “head of the Crimean Boxing Federation”, convicted before 2014, Sergei Voronkov from Sergei Aksenov’s “Salem” group.
However, the “star” of the new sanctions lists was “Tauric Chersonese”, namely an occupiers’ clone of the “state historical and archaeological museum-preserve”.
As the European Commission stated, “museum has actively undermined Ukrainian cultural heritage by promoting pro-Russian narratives regarding the cultural significance of the artefacts and excavation sites it administers”, and since 2022 “the museum has used its platform to promote the invasion and the actors perpetrating it, including organising deliveries of supplies to the frontlines”.
It should be noted that this precedent is quite important, and we also recall that the “museum workers” from Chersonese, controlled by the aggressor, have worked in recent years only as “scavengers”, studying the consequences of the construction of the propaganda “New Chersonesos” from the Kremlin propagandists led by the “Crimean Metropolitan” Tikhon.
However, the “Crimean museum workers” now have a completely different role, in the form of a mass construction “museum desks” and “corners” regarding the latest “cargo 200” delivered from the front, which recently happened in Novoozerne and Myzhvodne.
And in Yevpatoria, these “wastes of a special military operation” became the subject of a whole new “museum of modern military history”, hastily created on the basis of the “museum of military glory” of veterans of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
As for Chersonesos, the current “Tikhon brigade” of the aggressor’s special services, within the framework of their planned “diversification of control”, will now, apparently, try to “strengthen” with all sorts of “admirers of Nikolai Danilevsky” from the Simferopol “branches” of the “Cultural Front of Russia” and the “Assembly of the Peoples of Russia”, filled with people from Vladimir Konstantinov.
Whether the occupiers will be able to “cross” these characters in the case of propaganda from the “baptismal site of Vladimir”, further events will show.
