Every year, mobilization exercises are held in Pridnestrovie with an operational group of Russian troops assigned to this territory, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reports.
Russia uses ammunition depots on Transnistria territory to smuggle weapons. This was reported by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
“Every year, mobilization exercises are held there with a task force of Russian troops assigned to this territory. During the exercises, defensive and counter-offensive actions are carried out using ammunition from the warehouse in the village of Kolbasnoy. Part of the ammunition is used for combat training, part, according to military intelligence, for smuggling “, – said Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. , on the TV channel Present Time.
The military intelligence representative said that the current situation in Transnistria testifies to the readiness of the Russian Federation to use the territory occupied 30 years ago as an additional springboard for aggression not only against Ukraine, but also for possible military actions against the Republic of Moldova. .
“We are monitoring the development of the situation in Pridnestrovie. There is a serious struggle between the authorities and the special services of the Russian Federation are very active. The terrorist acts committed on the territory of the PMR are aimed at forcing the leadership of Pridnestrovian agreed to expand the presence of Russian troops, “Skibitsky insisted.
The explosions at the facilities, according to Skibitsky, will be presented as a threat to the population of the region and a signal to the leadership of the Republic of Moldova to abandon pro-European policy.
“The main goal is to leave this region completely under Moscow’s control, as it has been trying to do for 30 years,” the GUR representative said.
As for the terrorist attacks themselves, Skibitsky stressed that it was a characteristic handwriting of the FBB of the Russian Federation.
“According to our information, everything happening on the territory of Transnistria is under the control of the FSB of the Russian Federation,” said the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Recall that the territorial defense forces and the military have strengthened the state border defense in the Odessa region against the backdrop of provocations in unrecognized Transnistria.
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Source: korrespondent