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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freshwest
(53,661 posts)newthinking
(3,982 posts)Steady drip drip drip, media touting an incomplete, polar view of events...
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)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)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