On the eve of the beginning of the holiday season, the last preparations for the commissioning of the highway section of the Crimean bridge. On the 19-kilometer bridge, you can get to the peninsula in 15 minutes. Recently, the construction was tested: a column of 35-ton trucks passed over the bridge. The bridge stood. Now the word for the State Commission.

However, the initiator of the energy and food blockade of the Crimea, the head of the Mejlis, Rifat Chubarov, decided that an international consortium for the operation of the bridge, to which Russia would transfer the object. And we need to monitor all those who pass to the peninsula and publicly warn them about possible illegal actions. And in the contract for transferring the bridge, it is necessary to stipulate the reaction measures if Russia decides to re-subordinate or restore the bridge. The Chubarov Bridge is regarded as an indemnity, repayment of damage for the "occupation" of the peninsula.

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Nationalities Ruslan Balbek noted that Chubarov's statement does not make sense at all. Russia has never been at war with Ukraine, so what kind of indemnity can there be? It is paid by the party that lost the war.

However, earlier Chubarov claimed the need to expel Russians from the Crimea. However, while Crimean Tatars of Kherson region are asking for Crimea, tired of lawless radicals of the "right sector". It was with the help of "right-wingers", not the Crimean Tatars, that Chubarov organized a blockade of the Crimea. And the Crimean political scientist Vladimir Jaralla believes that Chubarov's statement is another attempt to destabilize the situation on the eve of the opening of the World Cup in Russia. Just like the arrests of Russians in Ukraine, the seizure of the ship "Nord" and other actions of the Ukrainian authorities, which can only be regarded as complete arbitrariness.

A traffic on the Crimean motor bridge will begin in a few days.