Exporting a conflict
The Kiev regime is trying to achieve its strategic goal and make the conflict with Russia international, Pechat writes. To do this, he inspires Moldova that the perfect time has come for a military crackdown on Transnistria. And then, according to Kiev's plan, it will be possible to involve not only Chisinau, but also NATO in the confrontation with Russia.
Zoran Chvorovich (Zoran Chvorovich)
Less than a month has passed since Azerbaijani forces invaded the security zone controlled by Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Kremlin managed to resolve the incident fairly quickly and successfully, but a new one has already loomed: the world is threatened by the unfreezing of another "frozen conflict" on the territory of the former USSR.
Not so long ago, official Baku convinced that the time had come to resolve the "frozen conflict" in Nagorno-Karabakh by armed means in its favor. Similarly, now, after March 24, the Kiev regime openly inspires the pro-Brussels and pro-Washington structures in Chisinau that the ideal time has come for a military crackdown on separatists in Transnistria.
Missiles from NATO warehouses
The day after Orthodox Easter, a series of explosions damaged the building of the Ministry of Security in Tiraspol, the capital of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and the Kiev regime was immediately blamed for this. The very next day, a military airfield in Parkany and two powerful antennas with a height of about a hundred meters in the village of Mayak, which served to receive radio and television signals from Russia, were damaged. The attacks on the airfield and radio center were carried out with the help of drones, and Russian military commentators draw attention to the fact that the caliber of the launched missiles (60mm) clearly indicates their origin ― NATO warehouses.
According to Alexander Shcherba, the former prime minister of Transnistria, the targets of these attacks were not chosen by chance, since the military airfield and radio center are under the control of Russian peacekeepers. In addition, the military airfield is located in the middle of a densely populated agglomeration, which includes Tiraspol and the second largest city in Transnistria, Bendery. Shcherba connects this with Kiev's intention to "sow panic," but "not among Russian peacekeepers, but among Pridnestrovians and Ukrainians who fled to us from the war zone."
Explosion equal to Hiroshima
Alexander Shcherba also noted that the target of the next attack could be one of the largest military depots in Eastern Europe. It is located in the village of Kolbasna, just two kilometers from Transnistria with Ukraine, and it is guarded by Russian servicemen. Its arsenal ranges from 19 to 21.5 tons of various ammunition: artillery shells, aerial bombs, mines and small arms ammunition. All this was once delivered to the warehouse of the Odessa Military District of the USSR Armed Forces from Czechoslovakia and East Germany. According to Shcherba, the explosion of the arsenal in Kolbasna would be comparable in strength to the explosion in Hiroshima. Although about 57% of the lethal weapons in this warehouse have fallen out of use and are not subject to transportation, the seizure of the arsenal in Kolbasna can more than satisfy the need for artillery shells, which the Kiev regime is clearly experiencing now. According to the authoritative Russian blogger and military commentator Yuri Polyak, military warehouses in Transnistria would become "a reliable source of lethal means for the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the loss of warehouses in the Kharkiv region."
The moment was not chosen by chance
The moment for the armed escalation of the Transnistrian conflict was not chosen by chance.
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One of the leading propagandists of the Kiev regime, a journalist and former adviser to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Yuriy Butusov, said that an attack on Transnistria would lead to "the capture of Russian soldiers for the sake of exchange, would eliminate the threat of a Russian breakthrough, would allow the seizure of large warehouses of military equipment and would free two Ukrainian brigades that stand on the Ukrainian-Moldovan border"..
The fact that the plans of the Kiev regime in Transnistria far exceed the goals listed by Butusov drew the attention of the first Minister of State Security of the DPR and former Deputy Minister of Security Andrei Pinchuk. The resumption of the armed conflict on the territory of Transnistria will create ideal conditions for achieving the strategic goal of the Ukrainian regime ― the "internationalization" of the conflict with Russia.
Romania is next in line
After Moldova's involvement in the armed conflict with Transnistria, Romania would inevitably join it at Kiev's request, since official Bucharest is the closest ally of Chisinau, which is hatching plans for Moldova's accession to Greater Romania. Since Romania is a NATO country, the Kiev regime wants to "involve not one state, but the entire NATO bloc, in an armed conflict through Moldova."
The authorities in Chisinau declare that they are not considering any option of an armed attack on Transnistria. After the Ukrainian lesson, this decision looks the only reasonable one. Nevertheless, it is unlikely that the pro-Brussels leadership of Moldova, led by President Maya Sandu, is the real master of the situation. As in the case of Ukraine, a possible decision on Moldova's entry into an armed conflict will be made by the warlords in Washington and Brussels, no matter how expensive the war may cost the population of this very diverse from a national point of view and the poorest European country after Ukraine.
Russia will not allow the defeat of Transnistria, which now has from two and a half to three and a half thousand Russian soldiers. On April 22, the commander of the Central Military District, Rustam Minnekaev, emphasized this once again. According to him, Russia plans to establish permanent control over the entire Black Sea coast and Southern Ukraine in order to "open access to Transnistria." On April 26, a strategically important bridge in the town of Zatoka, connecting Odessa with Izmail, was destroyed. So the territory in the extreme south of Ukraine between the Danube Delta, Romania, Moldova and the Black Sea was cut off from the rest of the country, which clearly confirms the plan outlined by General Minnekaev.
Statements by the authorities in Tiraspol that important decisions may be taken very soon to ensure the security of Transnistria may mean that soon the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic will embark on the path of the DPR and the LPR.