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Transnistria rejects offer to buy gas from Europe, expects Russia to resume supplies (kyivindependent.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Sooo… it appears to be a county of Moldova? Surely one county doesn’t have that jurisdiction? So why didn’t they just say Moldova?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

It's basically a region owned by pro-Russian rebels.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Because it’s a semi-autonomous state inside a state.

It doesn’t reflect Moldova just as Moldova doesn’t reflect it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

There are Russian-ish soldiers stationed there and some thousands of ... eh... I think artillery shells? Grenades? Well, weapons are stored not under Moldovian control, essentially acting as a three decade stalemate.

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18 tanks, 107 APC, 73 field guns, 46 antiaircraft installation, 176 tank destroyer, 1 Mi-8T, 1 Mi-24 (2009)

20,000 t Ammunition (2004)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Noting that the majority of the munitions stored there are 50+ years old and are as unstable as hell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How many soldiers could there be? 10k? 20k?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Wikipedia said 4-5k and some untranslated quotes implicated not the highest morale, but it'd be best if this goes down without a repetition of the 700 dead in 1992.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I will do a wild guess and say that that number is not useful as distraction or cannon fodder given how russian tactics work