The Moldovan government expresses its concern that this is an excuse and that Russia wants to create more instability. It is feared that Moscow is using the events as legitimacy for a military operation against the Eastern European country. The fear of such a scenario has been great in Moldova since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
secret conflict
In the Russian media, the latest events in Transnistria were described by a deputy as a provocation. Leonid Kalashnikov heads the committee for relations with former Soviet countries, such as Moldova.
“What is happening in Transnistria is a provocation aimed at involving Russia in a wider military operation in the region,” he told Interfax news agency.
A senior Russian officer recently made it clear that Russia must control all of southern Ukraine. It will also be an opportunity to contact Transnistria, where the rights of Russians are being violated.
Meanwhile, Russia’s deputy foreign minister specifically stated that Russia wants a peaceful solution to the conflict in Transnistria. For thirty years there has been a secret conflict between Moldova and Russia.
sickle and hammer
“It’s like coming to the Soviet Union during the Cold War,” says Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. speakers NPO Radio 1. Former Secretary General of NATO visited Transnistria. The country’s flag still bears the communist sickle and hammer.
Transnistria unilaterally declared independence in 1990 and swore allegiance to Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. Two years later, civil war broke out in the border area. Moldovan soldiers fought with Russian separatists and mercenaries. A ceasefire was signed in 1992, but the conflict did not officially end.
Since then, about 1,500 to 2,000 Russian soldiers have been stationed in Transnistria. The Kremlin believes that the Moldovan authorities are talking about an occupying force as a peacekeeper. Only a few countries recognize the region’s independence.
“On Putin’s shopping list”
Moldova, to which Transnistria still officially belongs, is one of the poorest countries in Europe. “He gets on Putin’s ‘shopping list’ when he talks about influence in what he calls his very vulnerable and almost foreign country,” says De Hoop Scheffer.
Last month, Nieuwsuur reported growing concerns in Moldova:
Source: NOS
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