Next up for US-UK-France destabilization: Transnistria

 

Tsargrad.tv

[Transnistria is a Russian speaking territory of Moldova which Russia seeks to protect from Western-perpetrated provocation – of the same kind that was done in Donbass, where Kiev’s terror operations provoked Russia into starting its special military operation. Transnistria and Moldova share a border with Ukraine, located to the north of them]

A military helicopter of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic was burned by a drone. Emmanuel Macron announced the decision to send troops to Moldova and is taking aim at Ukraine. The expert believes that this is all direct preparation for the intervention. Read more in the report from Tsargrad.

There is little left of the old Transnistrian Mi-8 except a charred metal frame. The vehicle was old, and no one was injured when it was hit. But the fact remains. It was destroyed. Destruction is certain. Eyewitnesses reported that the drone arrived from the direction of Ukraine.

Silencing the unprecedented threat to Transnistria, expressed by a series of terrorist attacks in recent years, provokes the continuation of terrorist attacks, the Foreign Ministry of the Transnistrian Republic of Moldova responded to the incident.

Well, the reactions of official Moldova and [Moldovan president] Maia Sandu to the incident are very revealing. Madame immediately stated that a provocation had been committed (who would doubt it) and that (Freudian slip) Ukraine had nothing to do with it. That is, another series of “they are shooting at themselves.”

A version spread across TG channels according to which the helicopter explosion was Kiev’s revenge for the fact that Tiraspol refused to sell Ukraine four MI-8s remaining from the legendary 14th Army of General Lebed:

In return, the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate promised to slightly open the border with Transnistria so that food flows would enter the republic, which is surrounded on all sides, but it did not keep its promise.

But this version is also so-so, if you know how closely the special services of Russia and the Moldovan Republic work. The Russian tricolor has an official status in the republic on the Dniester for a reason. No, here we are dealing with a more subtle and large-scale game.

"We'll have to send some guys to Odessa"

Suffice it to recall Madame Sandu’s recent mournful statements regarding the shelling of Odessa in the spirit of “Ukraine urgently needs help to protect itself and protect peace in Europe, my heart is with Odessa.” During that shelling, more than fifty Ukrainian and foreign thugs were killed and about a hundred were wounded at Kovalevsky’s Dacha.

And just a few days before this, the president [Sandu] received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor from the soft paws of Emmanuel Macron. Then Sandu and Macron, looking like a happy couple, signed an agreement to open a French military mission in Chisinau [capital of Moldova] Essentially, it is about sending a contingent of French troops to this country.

The new candidate for Napoleon did not calm down on this and had already agreed that in any case in the coming year “we will have to send some guys to Odessa.” And then, after a short period of time, a drone struck a helicopter in Transnistria.

In an attempt to keep Russia from completing the special military operation, there are hints of sending French troops to Ukraine. However, it is also critically important for Moscow to put the Black Sea ports of Odessa and Nikolaev under control, since otherwise the security of Crimea and the entire Black Sea basin cannot be ensured, commented political scientist Alexey Pilko on the TG channel “Pint of Reason”.

 

The expert believes that the unpacking of the Transnistrian case will most likely happen - and the specter of a big war in Europe will materialize in full force.

Most likely, the matter will not be limited to the south. In the north, Russia has two critical points of vulnerability: the Kaliningrad oblast, isolated from the rest of the country, and the exit from the Gulf of Finland. They will definitely be used in the game against our country, the expert believes.

In a conversation with Tsargrad, military expert Mikhail Onufrienko nevertheless suggested that the anti-Russian aggressors would not yet reach Kaliningrad and the oblast.

Well, Transnistria has already been handed over to the Kiev regime, which is simply testing how far it can go in its arrogance. And all of Macron’s arguments are on the same topic: how to suppress Russia and not get hit. We understand that it [the drone that hit the Transnistrian helicopter] didn’t fly in by accident, it was a deliberate hit. Then it will be possible to launch something else. It's like starting to prepare for an intervention, the expert believes. [This puts Russia in a bind because if Russia retaliates, it is striking a territory claimed by Moldova. It is important to note, however, the Moldova is not yet a NATO member]

In turn, volunteer and military blogger Roman Alekhin believes that under the current conditions Russia will not be able to support Transnistria with troops. And the international community will habitually turn a blind eye to the genocide of Russians, which the Nazis will certainly carry out there.

At the same time, in the warehouses in Transnistria there are shells (at least according to the papers) that are sorely needed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and they will continue provocations. It seems that Europe and the United States urgently need a reason for a new escalation of the conflict, while Biden is still deciding something, Alekhine wrote in his Telegram channel.

“First Russian” [Tsargrad] asked military expert Alexei Leonkov whether the explosion of a used Mi-8 could really be the beginning of a chain of provocations that could lead to another war in the Russian world.

Tsargrad: Is the blowing up of a rotorcraft reconnaissance in force?

Alexey Leonkov: I think that this kind of provocation, unfortunately, will continue. The first stone has been thrown. Now they are looking at the reaction. [I suspect we can look for another massive strike on Ukraine by way of retaliation]. Now Budanov [chief of main intel directorate, Ukraine] is actively collaborating with the British MI6, with its various analytics departments. And if we look, we will see that the number of terrorist and sabotage actions on the part of Ukraine has recently increased significantly. They are going to great lengths; of course, there is nothing sacred left.

The entire operation against the Belgorod oblast - Budanov said that there would be a surprise for Russia there... We saw this surprise, which cost Ukraine dearly, but we also suffered – unfortunately, citizens died. But everything from the handwriting suggests that these are British developments. And Transnistria is one of them; this is not an initiative of Ukraine.

– What are they trying to achieve with such provocations at this stage?

– Bring Pridnestrovie to answer so that it becomes a party to the conflict. To provoke it in some way in order to then send troops there. The question is how. On the part of Moldova to restore order? Sandu has been dreaming about this for a long time. Or from Ukraine under the guise of Moldovan troops... Or maybe the Romanians will come in in the uniform of the Moldavian army. Anything is possible.

– How can the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic react to this?

– By and large, the republic needs to wait until our troops reach its borders.

Conclusion

The West does not want to accept the defeat of Ukrainian gangs in the far East and, apparently, wants to get even with the Russians in the Far West [where Russian air strikes have hit Ukraine]. With its own personal participation. Without even being afraid of balancing on the brink of a major conflict that could ultimately lead to a nuclear apocalypse. The stakes are raised, the risks are named. But for Russia in the current situation there is only one correct decision, set out in the well-known formula: Russians do not abandon their own people in war. [In other words, if Russian speakers are attacked in Transnistria, Putin might be expected to do what he did in Feb 2022, ie, enter the republic with his troops! The Russian constitution demands that Russia must come to the aid of Russians anywhere who are attacked.]

* Translation and notes in bold and in [brackets] by Don Hank