19.01.2025
According to experts, after the deoccupation of Crimea, many of the new strikes will leave the peninsula themselves, especially the military and their families.
“50% are the military, security forces, officials, those who will leave themselves. They won’t even need to be asked, because they understand what awaits them,” says political scientist Evgeniya Goryunova in a story by Krym.Realii.
“I am sure that at least 50%, and even more, of those who settled after 2014 will leave,” notes Crimean journalist Imran Useynov.
In his opinion, a significant portion of those who lived on the peninsula before 2014 and who supported the occupation of Crimea will also leave.
As Sevastopol resident Roman Martynovsky notes, many Crimeans have recently been working out ‘escape routes’ by buying up apartments in the Krasnodar region in Russia.
“They just buy them and then rent them out, but I understand why they do this. This is a kind of “backup airfield” in case things get hot in Crimea,” he says.
He noted that he personally knows a lot of people who bought apartments outside of Crimea, rented them out “and are watching how things develop further.”
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I have friends in Crimea who are counting the days until Ukraine comes back. I also know a couple, who are dreading that day.
Give them no way to leave. Someone just destroy that fucking bridge. The humiliation would finish putin off, and destroy the sales of russian air defence systems.
Allowing this bridge to remain standing is one of the west’s more serious mistakes.
The list of mistakes is endless. This is 101 of how not to win a war.
Or it was the confounded trees? Or was it a grass fire? Haven’t heard about grass fires for a long time.
Even with a colossal amount of help from the US, which seems highly unlikely to put it mildly, it would be a huge scale operation, for which Ukraine does not have the manpower or resources. So I can’t understand the optimism of the writer.
Before 2014, I spent time on the peninsula. I stayed in a Tatar-owned complex in a predominantly Tatar resort town. The owners are still friends of mine even now. It is still immensely galling to have to call them on an 007 code, even after 11 years.
I remember a charming seaside village not far from Yalta, where you could eat seafood in an open air restaurant under the pier. It was idyllic.
I dream of going back there one day.
I will also return to there to see the land, cities, and my friends … after our victory, of course.