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okaawhatever

(9,453 posts)
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:39 AM Mar 2014

Russian military holds exercises in breakaway Moldova region: agency

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Russia's military staged training exercises on Tuesday in Transdniestria, a breakaway sliver of Moldova that is a focus of tension following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.

NATO's top military commander said on Sunday he was worried that Russia might have its eye on Transdniestria, a largely Russian-speaking region that borders western Ukraine, after seizing Crimea, which has a narrow ethnic Russian majority.

The Interfax news agency quoted a spokesman for Russia's Western Military District, Colonel Oleg Kochetkov, as saying that Russian forces stationed in Transdniestria had "conducted an anti-terrorism drill and practiced operations to rebuff an attack on their military base".

Transdniestria, with a population of half a million, has run its own affairs since 1992 after fighting a brief war against the Moldovan government over fears that it might join Romania after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia has a permanent garrison of peacekeepers there.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/25/us-russia-military-exercises-idUSBREA2O1KB20140325

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Russian military holds exercises in breakaway Moldova region: agency (Original Post) okaawhatever Mar 2014 OP
4th paragraph in OP, and I read the whole link, makes it sound routine... n/t freshwest Mar 2014 #1
Why does all this feel a little bit like the run up to war with Iraq? newthinking Mar 2014 #2
The American people will not stand for another unnecessary war . . . another_liberal Mar 2014 #3
Ukraine denies relation to drone shot down over Transdniestria jakeXT Mar 2014 #4

newthinking

(3,982 posts)
2. Why does all this feel a little bit like the run up to war with Iraq?
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 02:06 AM
Mar 2014

Steady drip drip drip, media touting an incomplete, polar view of events...

 

another_liberal

(8,821 posts)
3. The American people will not stand for another unnecessary war . . .
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 08:44 AM
Mar 2014

I sense the same uneasy similarity; however, the American people will not stand for another unnecessary war half way around the World. It will likely take decades of comfortable forgetfulness before we agree to rush into a disaster like Iraq again.

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
4. Ukraine denies relation to drone shot down over Transdniestria
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 09:07 AM
Mar 2014

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has declined to confirm that an unmanned aerial vehicle allegedly shot down on Tuesday over the self-proclaimed Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic was Ukrainian.

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukraine-denies-relation-to-drone-shot-down-over-transdniestria-340952.html

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