He used the Kerch incident to declare martial law. Thus the illegal – according to the Minsk agreements – bombing of cities in Donbass and the recent Kerch “incident”. US neocons and assorted Russophobes insist that Washington should further weaponize Kiev’s land, sea and air forces to counter “Russian aggression”, but Crimeans treat this as a bad joke.Įveryone knows Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko needs a diversion from his dismal, corrupt government. After all, Nikita Khrushchev, a sentimental Ukrainian, had transferred Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 in a fit of proletarian brotherhood, while blatantly violating the Constitution of the USSR. For Moscow, Crimea is already back to where it belongs. Washington officially insists all Crimea-related sanctions will remain until Moscow returns the peninsula to Ukraine. This will never happen. The guards are polite: “Welcome to Krym”. Cars and buses are carefully examined a terror attack is always a concern. There’s a passport control and customs check, even though Crimea is now Russian territory. I cross in the direction of Novorossiysk, then turn back from the Russian mainland. On the right, work proceeds on the rail bridge, which will be ready next year. To the right, the dark blue Sea of Azov, the Kerch strait – now one of the geopolitical hot spots of the young 21st century – and far in the distance is Krimsky Most, the Crimea bridge.Ĭrossing the bridge – a 19km-long engineering marvel, built in only two years – is as smooth as it gets and takes less than 15 minutes. To the left is Kerch harbor with no warships, only coastguard patrol boats. This is one of the last ridges in eastern Crimea. It was a big city that boasted a convenient harbor and a shipyard.Īs we climb higher, we come across an obelisk celebrating victory in the Great Patriotic War. We start our walk on the hilltop of Mithridates, in the heart of modern Kerch, where “terrible” king Mithridates of Pontus (134 – 64 BC) was killed. Greek geographer Strabo (63 BC – 23 AD) said Panticapaeum was the mother country of “all the Milesian cities of Bosphorus”. We are at the remains of Panticapaeum, the capital of the Kingdom of Bosphorus, founded in the second quarter of the 6th century BC on both sides of the Kerch Strait.
For Moscow, Crimea is back to where it belongs, and this is a region that has seen conquerors come and go for centuriesīy Pepe Escobar ( cross-posted with The Asia Times by special agreement with the author) Washington insists sanctions will remain until Russia returns the peninsula to Ukraine, but this will never happen.
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