Peacekeepers declared control over the situation in Pridnestrovie

The situation in the security zone in Pridnestrovie is under the control of the peacekeeping forces, said Oleg Belyakov, chairman of the Joint Control Commission for the management of the peacekeeping operation (JCC), RIA Novosti reports.

“The situation in the security zone is calm,” he said and added that the leadership of the republic would soon make decisions “in defense of the interests of Pridnestrovie.”

The OKC was created on the initiative of the ex-President of Russia Boris Yeltsin after the war in Transnistria. It oversees a 1992 ceasefire agreement in a demilitarized security zone on the border between Moldova and Ukraine. The zone follows the contour of the Dniester River, is 225 km long and 1 to 15 km wide.

The commission includes representatives of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, Moldova and Russia. The city of Bender is considered to be her place of residence. According to the agreement, Russian troops may be stationed in Transnistria.

On April 25, the building of the Ministry of State Security of Transnistria in the center of Tiraspol was fired from a hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria reported. No harm done.

On the morning of April 26, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic reported two explosions in the village of Mayak, Grigoriopol region. Two antennas of the radio center, which broadcast Russian radio, were blown up. According to the TSV channel, the center was built in the late 1960s by order of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network and Transworld Radio.

Later, the Security Council of Transnistria announced an attack on a military unit near the village of Parkany, RIA Novosti reported. The agency called all three cases terrorist attacks and declared a “red” terrorist alert level. Moldovan President Maia Sandu convened a meeting of the country's Security Council.

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On April 22, Deputy Commander of the Central Military District of Russia for military-political work, Major General Rustam Minnekaev, spoke about “facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population” in Transnistria when he spoke about the goals of the second phase of the special operation in Ukraine. According to him, Russian forces should establish control over the Donbass, which will provide a land corridor to Crimea. In turn, control over the south of Ukraine will make it possible to create a corridor in Transnistria.

On the same day, the Moldovan Foreign Ministry summoned Russian Ambassador Oleg Vasnetsov and expressed "deep concern" to him with the words of an unnamed Russian official, which contradict the position of Russia, which supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Moldova within internationally recognized borders.

Pushilin urged to take into account Pridnestrovie in the next stages of the special operation Politics

Later, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Viktor Vodolatsky said that the inhabitants of Transnistria actually consider themselves not only "citizens of Russia, but also the territory of Russia." The Russian Foreign Ministry said they see no prerequisites for an escalation in Transnistria.

Against the backdrop of reports of explosions in Transnistria, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, called for the withdrawal of Russia's special operation in Ukraine to the next stages, including taking into account the situation in the Moldovan Republic.

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