Kiev Hopes to Win Crimeans’ Hearts and Minds…by Cutting Off Their Food

‘Ukrainian lawmakers, a group of Crimean Tatar activists and Right Sector militants have joined forces to enforce a blockade on all food supplies headed into Crimea from Ukraine. Crimean lawmakers have already described the operation as a “political farce” reminiscent of old comedy cartoons.

The blockade was announced last week by Verkhovna Rada MPs Refat Chubarov and Mustafa Dzhemilev, officials who had earlier been banned from entering Crimea for five years after being accused of inciting ethnic hatred. Calculating that nearly 8,000 trucks have carried a total of $475 million worth of food goods to Crimea since the beginning of the year, the politicians noted that Ukrainian businessmen are “trading in the blood” of the peninsula’s Tatar community, who, they say, is facing systemic discrimination.

Unveiled at 12 pm on Sunday by a group of about 100 Tatar activists, joined by Ukraine’s ultranationalist Right Sector paramilitary group, the blockade has successfully blocked off border checkpoints at Chongar and Kalanchak, the two main entry points into Crimea from the Ukrainian side.’

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