Sergey Aksyonov, head of the annexed Crimea, wrote on Facebook that the water blockade of the Crimean peninsula is part of the West’s anti-Russia strategy.
“Ukraine’s policy is not determined in Kyiv, but in Washington and other western capitals. The water blockade of Crimea is part of the West’s anti-Russia strategy. That’s why, regardless of the reasons given by Ukrainian officials, the decision to end or to continue the blockade will be made far from the banks of the Dnieper,” he wrote.
According to Aksyonov, “attempting to deprive more than 2 million people of fresh water is essentially a form of state terrorism”. However, the water blockade has not caused the expected damage, he added: there is no water shortage, an increase in tourism is expected, and local agriculture has adapted to the new conditions.
Aksyonov remarked that the turnover of the government in Ukraine does not guarantee an improvement in quality. “The presidents, politicians and party signboards may change, but the approaches do not,” he wrote.
Previously Aksyonov announced that the Crimean government would soon publish an assessment of the extent to which being part of Ukraine damaged Crimea. He claimed that most of the funds in the federal and regional programs are being used to “overcome the devastation inherited from Ukraine”.
In March, Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairperson of Russia’s State Duma, proposed to collect from Kyiv the damage suffered by Crimea as a result of being part of Ukraine. The Crimean government later released its preliminary results, estimating a total loss of profit of 2.5 trillion rubles (around $38 billion). The work group also estimated that the 2015 energy blockade of Crimea caused 1 billion rubles ($15 million) in damage and a further 1.5 billion rubles ($22.7 million) in lost profit.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin responded that if Moscow demands compensation for the damage, then Kyiv will ask to be compensated for “centuries of occupation”.
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“However, the water blockade has not caused the expected damage, he added: there is no water shortage, an increase in tourism is expected, and local agriculture has adapted to the new conditions.”
If that is the case Mr 4%, why are you whining about it? Your trash invaded Crimea, your trash are responsible for water, not Ukraine.
What he forgot to say is, there’s water but it’s too salty to drink, tourism is up from 26 people to 34, and agriculture has adapted from the best grapes in the world to cactus farming….
The population of snakes has increased 10 fold.
Reading about what has happened to the Crimea since the “Polite People” invaded is like reading something from the Book of Revelations….it’s an outright plague.
btw, do you know anything about advertising here? Seems strange to have nothing yet. I read they pay in installments of $100 and I’m sure we’re not there yet but seems strange to have nothing so far.
Sorry. I’m not familiar with advertising on WordPress.
I think we get paid per click but I don’t think we’re getting Google ads, do you? On WP we should be getting at least 20 cents per click. I also signed us up for referral in case someone uses our site as a format to start their own WP site. I think we get like $40 each. We can click our own ads too. It would be wonderful to send PayPal money to the Vets Hospital in L’viv, or another charity.
Maybe we should put a post up asking our guys to start clicking on an ad or two every day.
Good idea. I would also like to find out why the ads are just WP. I might have done something wrong.
Yeah I noticed they are all advertising WordPress ads.
Same here. But nobody ask me about anything, i have no clue how things work here. Still, advertising WordPress at wordpress is like advertising Burger King in a Burger King joint…
That’s what I don’t understand, I think red purchased the premium plan which allows you to disable wordpress ads.
Let’s hope it’s not a rip off! No ads, no plug ins… except for the .org – which is a hammer he got that, no doubt – there’s not too much offered concerning the price… Anyway, i know the trick how to post pics in the comment section, and i don’t come here to read ads anyway, it’s about Ukraine and our gang. Still i hope Red can fix this, since he paid for it.
No plugins is normal for wordpress.com. Unless you upgrade to business class.
I don’t mind. I like this site. Larisa’s site was great, but since a year ago Disqus systematically destroyed free users. I will miss Knut’s photos and memes… but i won’t miss Disqus. With their shitty software it took me almost ten minutes to post an article, now with the WP app it takes two minutes! For someone with little free time this is a huge improvement.
Take a look at this. It tells you how to use wordad ads through Jetpack. Not sure if this is what you already did or not?
https://wordads.co/
Yeah, I think I got all the Jetpack stuff that is included with the Premium package we got. The Business Plan is 3X what we have now. I still need to install the payment plug-in for PayPal but I think we have everything else.
Premium does not support plug ins, ,maybe there lies the problem.
Yep, all I’ve seen for plug-ins is the Jetpack stuff we already have. I got the Google package when I got the rest of it but I think it is bundled in with the Jetpack stuff. It’s a little confusing but it will get easier as we go. I think we need to find a way to get the Social Media stuff connected and noticed. Are you following this site on your Facebook site?
Which site? Focusser’s group or my private Facebook page?
I saw UAToday Facebook, I thought it was yours. Sorry.
It now is. Since Focusser banned himself. LMFAO!
Hahahaha, he probably tried to use the 55 Savushkina address….
According to the plan, the wordpress ads should be automatically disabled. Maybe a call to the happiness engineer is needed?
Yeah, that was the default setting and I changed it. Happiness Engineer, lol, now that’s customer service!
Yeah it made me smile too. So we now have proper ads?
I still think one of us ought to ask a happiness engineer if everything is correct. Maybe I will have time this weekend. If they were more interesting, people might click on them, lol
Still showing the wordpress ads. So something isn’t right.
The last part is interesting from WP:
Not every ad served will result in a paid impression. This can happen when:
•A visitor is using an ad blocker, preventing ads from showing.
•A visitor leaves your site before ads can fully load in their browser.
•There were no advertisers who bid higher than the minimum price required to display their ad.
In other words, they can screw you any way they can.
I think if we can export our work to our Facebook page there will be more traffic which should mean more ads.
Problem is, the FB group is a private group, I think it needs to be made into a public group. Then it can be linked to the website, and vice versa.
Bingo.
I can’t change it, Im banned, Mike is the only admin on there now.
Yeah I know, but I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, lol. Way to go Vasyl….;)
I didn’t ban myself. FB banned me for whatever reason. LMAO
Maybe you’re a threat to Globalism?
At least nobody can take our website offline without any notice.
By the way, I changed the comment settings to require registration so we can identify any RTrolls. Sound ok?
Sounds good to me. No use making it easy for them.
Crops don’t grow in salt water, dumbass!
Why isn’t Ukraine pursuing multiple claims for war crimes, terror, mass murder, torture, rape, theft and environmental terrorism?
Who would support these claims if Ukraine made them? All the evidence in the world is out there. Yet all we hear is, both sides have to show restraint.
They still don’t understand that Moscow’s age is over. Time for Moscow to pass all nukes and their permant seat in the UN + veto to Kyiv. It’s Ukraine time now! 😊
Ukrainian water is for Ukraine, controlled by Kyiv, not for gangsters who invaded and looted ukrainian land! Drink your own piss when you’re thirsty! Slava Ukraini!
I guess they must be really desperate for water. The other day the Kremlin claimed the water in Dnipro is Russian, because the Dnipro source is in Russia. Now this terrorist is whining about Ukraine depriving pond life of water.
So is there water or not? sir gay ask your knob doesn’t seem to be sure, syas there is no water but then says there has been no detriment.
If it wasn’t a Kyiv descision to cut the water supply its not unreasonable to assume that the rest of the crap the moscow cock sucker claims was wrong also isn’t the fault of Kyiv.
He needs to be suing ‘Murica.
Either way he’ll not even get the steam off Ze’s piss.
Baaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaa!