Ammon News - The Ukrainian embassy in Jordan said that Russia is playing with fire over the fates of the Crimean population. The most notorious example of this final point was Russia’s bombing of the Khakovka dam in June 2023. Moreover, losing a sense of reality and playing warmongering, Russia has for some time tried to nuclearize Crimea by deploying its nuclear weapons carriers inside the peninsula.
"Moscow is sensing that situation is rapidly getting out of its control and is making erratic actions desperately trying to reverse the inevitable de-occupation of Crimea. One such example is the Russian State Duma recent registration of a draft law on the recognition of the “illegal” decision of the Soviet authorities in 1954 to transfer the Crimean region to Ukraine," the embassy added.
As Russia prepares to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its control of Crimea, the embassy said in an article titled "Ukraine is coming back, Crimea is waiting," that Russia can "celebrate" the 10th anniversary of the occupation of Crimea, but not for long. Ukraine is back.
Below is the full article by the embassy:
Ukraine is coming back, Crimea is waiting
As Russia prepares these days to “celebrate” its 10th anniversary of the embarrassing crime of occupying Crimea in Ukraine, the Jordanian public deserves to know more about the devastating consequences of Russian criminal practices of running Crimea after occupation.
Kremlin’s military voluntarism and total disregard to international law is leading not only Russia but also Crimea to the brink of a catastrophe. Recent reports clearly indicate that Crimea is now facing water shortages so severe that as many as 500,000 or one-fifth of Crimean residents may soon be forced to try to flee the peninsula despite Moscow’s claims to the contrary.
Russia’s occupation of Crimea following incursion into Ukraine in 2014 has led to an unprecedented deterioration of the situation with the water supply. Moscow hoped that it could overcome this problem when it expanded its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Yet, over the last two years, Moscow’s chronic mismanagement, failure to fund alternative sources of water, diversion of resources to the military, widespread corruption among its officials, and continuing destruction of reservoirs and canals in the peninsula have made the situation in Crimea and adjoining regions even worse. The water crisis predominately affects the Crimean Tatars, who live primarily in rural areas, but also the civilian population, especially its ethnic Ukrainian segment.
Russia is playing with fire over the fates of the Crimean population. The most notorious example of this final point was Russia’s bombing of the Khakovka dam in June 2023. Moreover, losing a sense of reality and playing warmongering, Russia has for some time tried to nuclearize Crimea by deploying its nuclear weapons carriers inside the peninsula.
Moscow is sensing that situation is rapidly getting out of its control and is making erratic actions desperately trying to reverse the inevitable de-occupation of Crimea. One such example is the Russian State Duma recent registration of a draft law on the recognition of the “illegal” decision of the Soviet authorities in 1954 to transfer the Crimean region to Ukraine.
Let us be crystal clear. Attempts to revise and “cancel” the 1954 decisions are not new. The Russian parliament adopted such a resolution back in 1992. The transfer of the Crimean region to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 took place within the legislation in force at that time, had an objective basis and contributed to the post-war reconstruction of Crimea with Ukrainian resources. The abovementioned and other similar “legislative initiatives” are futile attempts by the Russian dictatorship to legitimize its occupation of Crimea in a gross violation of international law.
In the meantime, being subjected to a growing international isolation Russian propaganda makes desperate attempts to portray the ongoing situation on the battlefield as turning in Moscow’s favor.
One cannot and should not agree with that proposition. The capture of every meter of Ukrainian land is given to the Russian occupying forces at an extremely high price: thousands of lives of Russian military personnel. This makes every perceived victory of Russia pyrrhic. Case in point here is the recent capture of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region that was mistaken by the Russians as their triumph. However, in fact, capturing this relatively small city, only during four months of active assaults at the background of 10-year failed attempts to occupy it, the Russians lost more than 47,000 soldiers.
Overall, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia suffered irreversible losses in the amount of more than 419,000 people, about 6,657 tanks, 10,258 artillery systems, more than 1,000 multiple launch rocket systems and 12,600 armored combat vehicles. Russia is simply not capable of renewing its military potential at such a high-rate losses.
In addition to the gradual depletion of the land component of the aggressor country, the Armed Forces Ukrainian forces are effectively destroying the Russian air force and fleet. Only during February 2024, Russia lost 13 military aircraft, including the high-cost A-50 long-range radar detection and control aircraft. Ukraine destroyed and disabled almost 33% of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia.
These numbers bear special significance. Precisely due to the professionalism of Ukrainian defense forces in eliminating the Russian fleet, Ukraine has been able to resume and increase the maritime food security lifeline that supports hundreds of millions of people in the countries of the Middle East and Africa. Russia has tried but failed in creating the biggest artificial mass global famine.
Moscow has tried and failed in preventing Ukraine from securing the food security needs of those countries. Ukrainians are fighting like lions, and they are fighting, among all other objectives, to secure food for the millions of families in the Middle East and Africa.
All weapons produced by Russia are immediately delivered to the battlefield. To cover the deficit, the Russian military-political leadership is turning to Iran and North Korea for help. This testifies to Russia's inability to independently conduct its aggressive war.
Russia’s capabilities are decreasing. The economy is weakening under the pressure of sanctions. Although Russia has the resources to continue the war in the short term, Russia's economic decline will deepen in the medium term.
Russia can “celebrate” its so-called anniversary of occupying Crimea, but not for long. Ukraine is coming back.
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