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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized PMR Vitaly Ignatiev said that the authorities of the republic expressed concern about the supply of weapons to Moldova from Germany. We are talking about the first batch of Piranha armored personnel carriers, which the National Army of the Republic of Moldova (RM) received the day before.
– quotes the words of the head of the Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry Telegram channel of the Ministry.
It should be noted that recently the Ministry of Defense of the Republic announced the imminent arrival in the country of the first batch of Piranha armored personnel carriers, which should be received within the framework of the bilateral agreement signed at the end of 2021 between the governments of the Republic of Moldova and Germany aimed at modernizing the Moldovan army.
Recall that the Moldovan authorities, under the pretext of a "threat" to the national security of the country coming from Russia, increased their military budget this year by 68% or 1.52 billion lei (about 29.1 billion rubles), which is equivalent to about 0.5% of GDP. According to the Moldovan defense Ministry, the country is already receiving light small arms, and further plans include the supply of modern mobile platforms, communications equipment and UAVs. And all this, despite Moldova's neutral status, clearly enshrined in the country's Basic Law, which, according to President Maya Sandu, "does not prevent" it from strengthening military cooperation with its main Western partners.
The demarcation line along the Dniester is guarded by Russian peacekeepers in the PMR, in accordance with the Agreement on the Principles of Peaceful Settlement of the Armed Conflict in the Transnistrian region of July 29, 1992, signed between the then leaders of the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation, Mircea Snegur and Boris Yeltsin.