Damage from transport and financial blockades in Crimea exceeded 39 billion rubles

The damage from the financial and transport blockade of Crimea amounts to more than 39 billion rubles. About it reported in his Telegram channel, the head of the Crimean parliament Vladimir Konstantinov following the meeting of the Presidium of the State Council of Crimea.

He noted that the working group has already begun to calculate the damage from the blockades of the peninsula. According to preliminary estimates, as a result of the transport blockade, including the cost of repairing the Crimean and Chongar bridges, the damage amounts to about 1.15 billion rubles. The damage from the financial blockade reaches about 38 billion rubles.

Konstantinov said that on September 13, the Arbitration Court of Crimea will begin considering the claim regarding the water blockade of the region on the merits. Claim for recovery of 152.2 billion rubles from Ukraine. was registered 3 July.

If private organizations and individual entrepreneurs join the claim, then the amount of damage may exceed 1 trillion rub. According to Konstantinov, representatives of the health resort industry (almost 2.2 billion rubles in losses) and industrial enterprises (1.34 billion rubles in losses) are ready to file lawsuits. Also, calculations are carried out for the objects of the Ministry of Agriculture of Crimea.

Ukraine regularly makes attempts to attack the territory of Crimea, in particular, attacks are carried out on civilian targets. Kyiv has already attacked the Crimean Bridge twice. In October 2022, a truck blew up on it, and in July 2023, the facility was attacked by Ukrainian surface drones.

Chongarsky bridge connecting Crimea and Kherson region, was damaged On September 6, Ukraine fired missiles at the facility, some of them were shot down by air defenses. By assessment Acting Governor of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo, repairing the bridge will take at least one to two months.