After the introduction of the so-called grocery blockade of the Crimea on the border line with Ukraine at drivers trying to extort money for travel without restrictions, said the Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksenov.

"The situation on the border is calm. Passenger transport pass without restrictions. Closed the only crossing points for heavy vehicles, but to me there is information about the fact that there are still attempts to extort money from drivers of heavy vehicles to pass them without any turns, without limitations, "said Feldman in the broadcast television channel" Russia 24 ". He believes that the so-called food blockade of Crimea from Ukraine will not last long." Residents of the border regions themselves will evaluate these figures ", - has noticed the head of the Republic. First it was claimed that the movement of trucks from Ukraine to Crimea now is not on any of the three checkpoints. On the territory of Ukraine has accumulated several hundred trucks, reports the news Agency. On Sunday, activists led by the people's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Mustafa Dzhemilev, leader of Crimean Tatars in Ukraine Refat Chubarov and joined them "the Right sector**" began the so-called food of blokatorima by limiting the document for access of trucks with goods via border crossings. The last checkpoint, which kept freight movement in the Crimea, until recently, remained checkpoint "Perekop" (from the Ukrainian side ? "Chaplynka" ), but at night, the Ukrainian side has blocked the traffic and the route to the Crimea. According to the Ukrainian mass media on the Ukrainian checkpoint " Chongar ", "Chaplynka" and "Kalanchak" on the first day of the week focused more than 800 trucks, also blocked the trucks that were sent not only in Crimea, but also from the Peninsula. The head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov gave a comparison of Ukraine declared the blockade of the Peninsula Comedy film, because the goods it is in the Russian region not more than 5% of the market.
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