Thursday, March 28

Can Russia intervene in the breakaway region of Moldova?


Since a russian general suggested four days ago that the separatist region of moldova could be the next target of the Kremlin troops, the situation in the small European country has continued to deteriorate. various explosions have shaken the pro-Russian region of Transnistria in the last 48 hours without any country or armed faction claiming them. The president of the country, maia sanduhas claimed that the attacks are an attempt to destabilize the region Y drag her to war.

“According to the information we have, the escalation attempts are related to internal forces of Transnistria who want a war and are interested in destabilizing the situation,” Sandu told reporters after meeting with the Supreme Security Council, according to the Russian news agency RIA Nóvosti.

According to the authorities of Transnistria, the pro-Russian region and border with Ukraine which declared itself independent in the early 1990s, the attacks hit a variety of targets. “They shot grenade launcher against him building of the Ministry of State Securitythere were two explosions in the radio television center of the Maiak people and also attacked a military unit in Parcani“, has indicated the press service of the president of the separatist region, Vadim Krasnoselsky, who has described the incidents as “terrorist attacks“. At the moment, no casualties have been reported.

Last Friday, Major General Rustam Minnekeyev stated that one of the russian army targets during the second phase of its military offensive in Ukraine it involves establishing control over the east and south of the country. “Control over southern Ukraine is also a access road to Transnistriawhere there is also evidence that the Russian-speaking population is being oppressed.” The Kremlin later denied that the aforementioned population is being oppressed and stressed that its intention is to support a peaceful solution to the conflict in the separatist region.

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Along the same lines, the Russian Foreign Ministry has been “alarmed” by what happened and has said hope “not to have to intervene in the Transnistrian conflict”. Just the opposite message you sent Denis Pushilinthe president of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, one of the pro-Russian breakaway regions of the Ukrainian Donbas. Pushilin claimed that the latest incidents in Transnistria “would require continuing” Russian military operations there.

Transnistria, a territory of barely half a million inhabitants, mostly Slavs, broke its ties with Moldova after an armed conflict (1992-1993) in which it had Russian help. Since the end of that conflict, Moldova advocates the integration of the two territories divided by the dniester river, to which the separatists have always refused. Moscow permanently maintains more than a thousand soldiers there.


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