1 If By Land, 2 If By Sea

From Interfax Ukraine:
"Ukrainian goods shipped to Crimea by sea – Crimean Tatar leader"

Ukrainian goods are being shipped to annexed Crimea in barges, President's Commissioner for the Crimean Tatar People, Petro Poroshenko Bloc MP Mustafa Jemilev has said. "Everything is blocked by road and rail, while barges from Skadovsk are shipping goods by sea to Crimea," the Sobytiya Kryma portal reported, citing Jemilev. He also said that some trucks delivery goods to Crimea via Rostov-on-Don in Russia, bypassing Kherson region. Jemilev said that he has informed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko about the situation. He did not say if the barge shipments could be blocked. As reported, a blockade of deliveries to Crimea by road began on September 20.

^ "1 if by land, 2  if by sea"  the old American Revolutionary War saying that helped Paul Revere warn the colonists that the British were coming can be used in the Crimea. In this case it is 2 if by sea. The protect blockade has been undermined by Ukrainian goods being shipped to the Crimea. To some that is just a way to make a living, but to most it shows direct support for the Russian annexation. The Crimea relies heavily on the Ukraine for many things, road access, electricity, water, etc and that is something that still confounds people around the world. Russia makes bold statements on how they will invest in the Crimea, boost  the government pensions, improve the infrastructure, build a bridge to the Russian mainland and that the Crimea will be overflowing with Russian tourists. It seems that very little of those promises are being kept over a year since the invasion, occupation and annexation. The Russian tourists are few and far between mainly because of the economic crisis and the high cost of basic items (brought on by the Russian war.) The only concrete things being down in annexed Crimea are: the nationalization of many businesses, the importation of Moscow-backed leaders, the discrimination of the ethnic Ukrainians and Tartars and the building of the bridge to mainland Russia. In most of the polls (conducted by the Russians, Ukrainians, Europeans, etc) show that the lives of the Crimeans haven't improved in the year and 7 months since Russia annexed them. Like good former Soviets, the people of the Crimea know what to say in public with Moscow listening and what reality is and the two viewpoints don't match. It  continues to amaze me just how fairly the Ukrainians continue to treat the Russians even though the Russians annexed part of their country and have been helping the ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. I know the Russians would not do the same if they found themselves in that situation. That shows how peace-minded the Ukrainian people are and how they just want to be left alone to decide things for themselves. ^

http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/295268.html