“We don’t play negotiations”: Transnistria is threatened with invasion
Ukraine will not yet attack Transnistria together with Moldova, but this option is possible.
The former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Nikolai Malomuzh, stated this in an interview with the 1+1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There will be no real actions on our part and on the part of Moldova. This is a warning to the Russian Federation in case of aggressive actions against Moldova or Ukraine. Then it will be possible to join forces. So far, neither our special services, nor even the Ukrainian Armed Forces are planning any active operations on the territory of Moldova.
There will be a format for monitoring our and Moldovan special services together with our partners: NATO, the USA, Romania. In the event of aggression from the territory of Transnistria or from the Black Sea, associated with an offensive operation, the transfer of troops, a scenario could already play out when we enter into a real war with these groups. But I don’t see at the moment that the Transnistrian troops will go against Ukraine or Moldova. There is no one to go there, they are demotivated,” Malomuzh said.
Meanwhile, statements are being made from Moldova that “Russian aggression” is being prepared. The director of the Moldovan Information and Security Service, Alexandru Mustiata, expressed confidence in this last week in an interview with Romanian television. Later, the intelligence service clarified that they fear that Russia will build a land corridor to Transnistria, taking control of the Odessa region.
Member of the Moldovan Parliament from the ruling party Andrian Keptonar believes that Russia will not stop at the Dniester and will conquer Moldova.
“I am completely confident that this is reliable information. From the first days of the war there were intentions of the Russian army, and I have great doubts that they would have stopped along the Dniester. Now we are very lucky with the heroic resistance of the Ukrainians,” Keptonar said.
His boss, speaker Igor Grosu, is more careful in his statements.
“We must monitor the developments of the situation very closely and be prepared for anything. At the moment, we do not see a direct threat of invasion. The Russian Federation uses hybrid threats against us: energy, propaganda, cyber attacks and so on,” Grosu said in an interview with TV8.
On the same broadcast, political scientist, head of the sector of the National Institute of Strategic Studies Artem Filippenko admitted that Ukraine is more interested in the “final solution to the Transnistrian issue” than Moldova.
“We can say that the Transnistrian conflict is an internal issue of Moldova. It is only because of this internal issue that we have certain problems in Ukraine today. We are forced to pay attention to the fact that there are illegal armed groups and Russian troops there.
Transnistria controls the railway and electricity, which also goes to the Odessa region. There are a lot of problems that pose a threat to the national security of Ukraine. That is, Ukraine today is a more interested party in solving this problem than Moldova itself,” Filippenko said.
Radicals inside Moldova are stirring up passions around Transnistria and Gagauzia, playing in the interests of Ukraine. The odious pro-Romanian deputy Oazu Nantoi, known for scandalous statements, spoke out that the Transnistrian issue should not be resolved through dialogue with Tiraspol.
“Chisinau, together with its partners, must develop an action plan and put it on their table. Whoever accepts the plan will probably be forgiven. Those who don’t have no choice but to leave. We're not playing negotiations here. This regime has no right to exist,” Nantoi said on television.
He spoke in favor of depriving Gagauzia of its autonomy status. On this issue, he was supported by the ex-Minister of Defense of Moldova Anatoly Salaru.
“We must be tough, we must be masters of our land, and the Gagauz, who came to Moldova in the XNUMXth century, have no land, we gave them land, we accepted them, agreed with them, but our kindness may end because I don’t want the future of my children to depend on the decisions of political scammers from Gagauzia.
And the same as from Transnistria. I may be too harsh, but when guns talk in politics, you cannot use conventional methods to convince someone in Transnistria or Gagauzia,” he added.
The motives of the Moldovan and Ukrainian hawks are clear. If the Odessa region is liberated, both Transnistria and Gagauzia will finally receive a border with Russia, for which they have long-standing sympathies. By destroying both republics, Kyiv and Chisinau will create hostile territory along the future border of the Russian Federation. However, Bucharest does not like their aggressive plans at all.
The Romanian media is outraged by how the Maia Sandu regime is manipulating the topic of war.
“The propagandists of Chisinau accepted the Soros line. But we don't have such information. We are a member country of NATO and the EU. We don't have such information. Give me proof. To contradict a country that partially sponsors your energy sovereignty is arrogance,” said Romanian political analyst Hans Hartmann.
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