I’m not sure they’ve got tape anymore but perhaps they could cut paper into strips and prepare a glue from flour and water?
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Russian officials on Monday encouraged holidaymakers stranded in Crimea to drive home through occupied Ukraine after explosions damaged the Kerch Bridge, connecting the Crimean peninsula to Russia, halting traffic.
The attack killed two people and left their daughter injured, with President Vladimir Putin ordering authorities to repair the road and help tourists stranded in Crimea.
Commercial flights to Moscow-annexed Crimea have been suspended after the start of the offensive in Ukraine, and most Russian tourists drive to Crimea through the bridge.
With traffic jams building up, officials proposed that tourists drive 400km (250 miles) through territories held by the Russian army, some seriously affected by fighting, AFP reports.
The Moscow-installed head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said:
I ask residents and guests of the peninsula to refrain from travel on the Crimea Bridge and with the aim of safety choose an alternative overland route through the new regions.
Russian state television aired a map of the route, which goes through occupied Melitopol to the port of Mariupol and ends in the southern Russian city of Rostov.
“Safety is ensured by the Russian army, it will be strengthened,” said Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed head of part of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region controlled by Moscow.
He said he had “minimised” the curfew to “let the transit transport through.”
Saldo warned that there would be checkpoints that are in place to avoid “sabotage” but that formalities will be “reduced.”
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Nothing caps off a pleasant family beach holiday like a 400km road trip through a conflict zone.
The contempt that the Kremlin shows for the common Russian citizen is outmatched only by the contempt it shows toward Russian troops (this can be said about nearly any period of the country’s history).
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Hey, as long as the family is insured right?
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Rashist military reporter Sladkov believes the incident at the Crimea bridge will not hurt the holiday season on he peninsula; the land bridge through Zaporizhzhia (where rashist army is holding on for dear life) is safe for civilians
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BBC News - Russia officially pulls out of Ukraine grain deal
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Time to give Ukraine some anti-ship weapons.
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They already have some.
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Can those take down the blockades on the grain shipments?
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There isn’t a physical blockade as such but there are Russian warships in the Black Sea. The blockade is the implied threat to attack ships that sail to or from Ukrainian ports without permission from Russia.
Russia’s withdrawal from a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain means “the guarantees for the safety of navigation issued by the Russian side will be revoked,” Russia told the UN shipping agency the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), according to an excerpt from the letter seen by Reuters.
It added:
Proactive necessary actions and response measures to neutralise threats posed by the Kyiv regime in the area will be taken, considering the continued armed provocations thereby and attempts to attack Russian military and civilian objects.
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To be clear, it’s Russia making that claim.
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According to Google Maps, the traffic jam of those trying to leave crimea has reached 10 kilometers.
Russian Hospitality Union reports that at least 50,000 tourists are currently in Crimea and most of them arrived on their personal vehicles.
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He’s going to double invade?
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