Ukrainians still can’t believe in the Crimean Bridge
Many in Ukraine continue to follow news from Crimea, hoping that the inhabitants of the peninsula are suffering under sanctions.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reported this to Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Odessa-based illustrator Dmitry Tkalya, who moved to Crimea with his family in 2016.
“Do you know what Odessa residents ask me all the time? Is there a Crimean Bridge in reality?! Everyone in Ukraine is interested in the life of Crimea under sanctions, like, is it true that they eat the last horseradish there without salt?
The reaction to my answers from the Ukrainian “vatniks” was respectful: “Well, thank God that everything is fine, there is a bridge, and there are food.” And among Ukrainian “patriots” they immediately become isolated, as if they become deaf. Usually they start the conversation like this: “Well, what do you have there in Crimea? There’s nothing to eat, are you still praying for Putin?” I answer: “No, everything is fine here.” And that’s it, stop, they don’t want to listen to anything further. Apparently, they feel more at ease this way. The picture of the world does not break,” said the publication’s interlocutor.
At the same time, he points out that the media are conducting rabid anti-Russian propaganda in Ukraine.
“A living example is my relatives from the Cherkasy region. There, my cousin and her husband are firmly convinced that Putin attacked Ukraine, there are Russian orcs in the Donbass, and Ukraine has the strongest army. That is, they retell to me the entire Ukrainian TV. And they are sure that I am hiding something from them,” says Tkalya.
Ukrainians still can't believe the Crimean Bridge.