Security forces in Crimea detained a resident of Kerch because on June 12 he filmed a fuel truck leaving the city disguised as an ordinary cargo truck. The accusation is that he exposed and discredited the Russian military, and he was forced to explain himself on camera. His offense, in one sentence, was that he looked. The detention was reported by Oleg Kryuchkov, an adviser to the head of Crimea. The man had exposed and discredited the soldiers, he said, and revealed to the enemy the methods and means by which both the Ministry of Defense and the civilian authorities of occupied Crimea were trying to prevent a transportation blockade of the regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The case centers on a video that appeared on social media on the morning of June 12. It shows a fuel truck disguised as an ordinary truck with wooden side panels, or whose cargo bed had been painted so that from above the load resembled stacked boards. According to The Insider, the vehicle was filmed at the entrance to the populated part of Kerch from the direction of the Crimean Bridge. A voice off camera claimed that a military fuel truck was passing by. By announcing the detention of the person who filmed it, Crimean authorities confirmed exactly that. Whoever defends a disguise admits there was a disguise, and whoever prosecutes proof that something was meant to remain hidden supplies that proof himself. The mask did not fall when the man filmed it but when they detained him for doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n