Posted on 06/03/2015 6:12:53 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Keep an eye on Transnistria, the pro-Russian breakaway state in Moldova. On Monday, Dmitri Trenin, one of Russia’s best-known foreign policy analysts and a man with good Kremlin antennae, tweeted: “Growing concern in Moscow that Ukraine and Moldova will seek to squeeze Transnistria hard, provoking conflict with Russia.” On Tuesday, a columnist in the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper warned that Russia “seriously faces the prospect of a repeat of the [2008] situation” – when it went to war with Georgia – “this time around Transnistria”.
What sparked the tensions was a May 21 vote in Ukraine’s parliament to suspend military co-operation with Russia. That included a 1995 agreement giving Russia military transit rights across Ukraine to reach Transnistria, which borders Ukraine’s Odessa region.
Russian peacekeepers have been deployed in the unrecognised statelet since its brief war for independence from ex-Soviet Moldova in 1992, and Russia has a base there with about 1,350 soldiers and heavy weapons. Losing access via Ukraine means Russia must resupply its base by air through Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, and across Moldovan territory.
But Moscow complains Moldova has recently detained and deported several Russian soldiers. Mr Trenin alleged to the FT, moreover, that Ukraine had deployed S-300 air defence systems near the border.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.ft.com ...
TN is definitely being blockaded, and nit much in the way of supplies is getting through. Putin has stated publicly a couple of times in the last week that "Russia won't allow a blockade."
In addition, Russian Media believes that the appointment of Georgia's ex-president Saakashvili by Poroshenko as Governor of Odessa means that an attack on TN is looming, in revenge for Georgia 2008.
Numerous reports claim that Ukraine has sent a large number of troops to the border, including an S-300 battery.
Now rumors are flying on Twitter that the Russian Senate may call an "Extraordinary Session" on Transnistria.
It's likely smart to keep an eye on what is going on there, over the next couple of weeks.
Transnistria — born with the wrong nistria
In addition to this, there was a big fight in the town of Marinka today, a western suburb of Donetsk, with the rebels taking control of the town.
In the last few days, Kiev troops have been shelling Donetsk from there, causing several civilian deaths, and 80-90 wounded.
Rebels are reporting they over-ran two heavy artillery batteries (a Minsk violation), and an ammo storehouse, and are admitting 18 dead, many wounded, and claim to have killed 200+ Kiev troops. Kiev is saying they “repelled” an attack.
Whatever the case, Donetsk isn’t being shelled from Marinka tonight.
Transnistria? Is that where the Jenner family is from?
“Transnistria? Is that where the Jenner family is from?”
No, I think that was Transgenderstan.
Or, it could have been the Trans-Cockusus. I’m not sure.
Russia has been causing problems for a while, long before the Ukraine invasion.
So are we to gather that wwiii will break out in the next few days?
I guess I need to work on my preps.
Let's translate this: "Russia plans to initiate hostilities using their other, less widely known controlled territory within another sovereign nation, thus opening up another front in the invasion, perhaps also attempting to take more land in Moldova."
Folks, Tcrlaf is a Russkie buttboy. I've been reading reports for weeks of Russian shelling of Ukrainian territory, with Ukrainian soldiers being killed and wounded.
When Tcrlaf gets his orders from up above, he starts making posts talking about how Ukraine or any other country is beginning to get "hostile" with Russia, thus necessitating Russian retaliation.
“My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” —Ronald Reagan in 1984 during a microphone test
NewsFront video from today, fighting in Marinka, at the school:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPavEcUUtM4
Life News live report from the early morning today with the commander of the “Internationals Brigade Pyatnashka” (Mostly Euros, Serbs, Bulgarians, Italians, and maybe a couple of Americans). Vostok was also involved, supposedly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TtSPjtcAC0
"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=
Enough with your damn trolling.
The ONLY reason you come here is to derail any thread containing non-Kiev/non Obama-administration pre-approved info.
Please go away.
A lot of the scare mongering about Nukes was put out by the KGB, probably aimed at making us afraid to use them. Meanwhile, Russia has prioritized improving its nuclear ability and tricking us into deteriorating our own. It’s conventional army would be wiped out by us rather easily, but their strategies are nuclear-centered.
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