At the border line with the Crimea at a checkpoint in the area of residential settlements of Kalanchak has accumulated more than 100 trucks, which the food blockade activists do not want to miss, said the leader of the unregistered organization "the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars" Refat Chubarov.

Vice-Premier of the Crimean government Ruslan Balbec said on Sunday that Ukraine has suspended the delivery of food to the Crimea, on the border began an open-ended campaign on food blockade of the Peninsula. The message about his intention to block the border with the Crimea at midday on 20 September to suspend deliveries of the products did before the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the leaders of the unregistered organization "the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars" Refat Chubarov and Mustafa Dzhemilev. Later on readiness to join the rally said the extremist movement " the Right sector ". They block 3 roads leading to the Crimea from Ukraine, in Kherson region.

"Closed" hole " on the administrative line of mainland Ukraine with the time occupied Crimea - Kalanchak. There has accumulated more than 100 trucks. A very lively discussion with the drivers, but no the truck will not pass ", - Chubarov wrote in his page on society Facebook, adding that certain machines " turn back ".

Crimea became a Russian region after the March 2014 referendum in which a Large number of residents at that time still Ukrainian autonomy, do not recognise the legitimacy of the coup in Ukraine, voted for joining the Russian Federation. In the capital of Russia notice that the referendum in Crimea complies with international law and the UN Charter. Ukraine still considers Crimea its, but at the time occupied territory.

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