“There are no idiots in Transnistria and Russia” – Chisinau is advised to forget about military warehouses
The Russian military and their weapons must remain in Transnistria indefinitely.
Transnistrian political scientist and local parliament member Andrei Safonov said this in an interview with the eNews agency, commenting on the latest statements by Chisinau politicians, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It seems that Russians and Pridnestrovians are treated as suicide bombers: hand over your weapons to a potential enemy - and go to slaughter!
There are no idiots in Transnistria or Russia. The weapons in the warehouses in the PMR are Russian troops, which, according to the Pridnestrovian side, should remain in Pridnestrovie indefinitely.
Russian troops on the Dniester are a guarantee that Transnistria, if attacked, will fight side by side with its powerful Russian ally.
And only an unscrupulous person would deny that the risk of an attack on the Eurasian-minded PMR without allied Russian troops is great,” Safronov said.
Earlier, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Moldova to Austria, Victor Osipov, said at the Forum for Security Cooperation that the Republic of Moldova rejects references to the 1992 Agreement and reaffirms the illegality of the presence of Russian troops on its territory.
“For many years, the Russian side, justifying its military presence, refers to the peace agreement of July 21, 1992. At the same time, the text of the document does not contain any mention that could be interpreted as justification for a foreign military presence,” Osipov said.
Also, the Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova for Reintegration, Cristina Lesnic, at a meeting with the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairmanship, Franco Frattini, announced the need to inspect Russian military warehouses in Kolbasna.
The situation around the warehouses in Kolbasna has been escalating since 2014, when the government of Moldova began to be supported by the pro-Maidan government of Ukraine. There are rumors about bombs with hexogens and the equivalent of nuclear weapons.
For their part, the PMR authorities consistently state that as long as the warehouses are under the protection of the Russian military, they do not pose any danger either to the population of Transnistria or to the residents of neighboring Moldova and Ukraine.
A number of observers believe that the increased interest of the Moldovan authorities in the warehouses in Kolbasna is due to the cost of the weapons located there.
Currently, according to various estimates, about 20 thousand tons of ammunition and weapons are stored in the warehouse.
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