The Kremlin plans to send even more people to Crimea, putting them in danger

The Kremlin’s plans to send more and more people to Crimea, which is constantly being shelled by missiles and drones, can be seen as a ticket to the combat zone.

In any civilized country, no one would think of sending their citizens into a war zone. Normally, the governments of normal countries warn their citizens not to go there because there is shooting and missile strikes.

But this does not apply to Russia. For the sake of PR and to assert that everything in Crimea is calm and stable, Russian state employees, union members, and children are being massively sent to Crimea with vacation packages.

By the end of the year, the federal budget will spend about a billion rubles on vacations on the peninsula. The money is allocated for the vacations of public sector workers and, even more alarmingly, children.

Most actively sending people to the peninsula are Moscow and St. Petersburg, but they are bringing them from all over Russia — even from Chukotka (located in the far northeast of Russia).

All this is happening against the backdrop of Ukraine striking military targets in Crimea and not intending to stop. And then, due to the inept Russian air defense, missiles fall on beaches and ordinary homes. There are victims, and wounded people. Propaganda screams, relishing the details, blaming Ukraine for everything.

This is instead of closing entry to Crimea and not deliberately putting ordinary people in harm’s way.

Remarkably, almost the entire Black Sea Fleet has already been withdrawn from its main naval base in Sevastopol. All because the fleet was in danger there. But for people, there is supposedly no such danger. So, welcome to the war zone. And we will later perform ritual dances on your corpses.

And how can we not recall Vladimir Putin’s famous statement from ten years ago: “And let some of the Ukrainian military try to shoot at their own people, the Russian military will stand behind the people, not in front, but behind.”

This statement encapsulates the entire logic of the current Russian regime — to use civilians as a human shield. And when they die, propaganda will lament over the bodies, as if they were martyrs who died for a “just cause.”

But then, in March 2014, it was about Ukrainian citizens, and now it is about Russian citizens.