A group of Russian military forces will shortly carry out an exercise in Transnistria. The press service of Russia’s Defense Ministry reports that the trainees will learn how to rebuff an attack by Su-25 fighter and Mi-24 helicopter.
Spokesman of the Western Military District Oleg Kochetkov explains that the trainees will use Plamya grenade launchers and Utyos heavy machine guns.
As EADaily reported earlier, in late May the Supreme Rada denounced the agreement allowing Russian troops to move to Transnistria through the territory of Ukraine, with a relevant law ratified by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on June 11.
This made the airport in Chisinau, Moldova, the only legal way for the Russians to get to Transnistria. But in May the Moldovans detained three Russians there.
The Moldovan authorities do not consider the Russian troops in Transnistria as peacekeepers and insist on their withdrawal from the unrecognized republic. Russia has almost 1,000 military men in Transnistria.
On June 9, the newly appointed governor of Odessa region Mikheil Saakashvili said that the Ukrainian authorities would fortify their border with Transnistria so as to stop drugs and arms trafficking from that republic.
Isn't it disgusting to look like... Merz? Zakharova appreciated the speech of the German Chancellor
Stubb advised Kiev to fight on: Ukraine is winning, Putin has failed
Rutte on the advancement of the Russian army: "This is the speed of a garden snail"
Venezuela was surrendered — the next Cuba. Or will we give Trump a piece of paper?
Orban's main rival in the Hungarian elections got into a sex scandal
The soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refused to shoot at the Russian military, who offered them to surrender