Military training will begin in Transnistria on March 1

The Ministry of Defense of Transnistria announced the start of a three-month military training camp. They will start on March 1, RBC reports.

Men under 55 years of age who, before February 28, applied with a relevant application and passed a medical examination, will be able to take part in them. Participants of the camp will be provided with clothes, accommodation and meals. Non-working citizens will be paid monthly 2800 local rubles. In terms of the Russian ruble, this is about 10-12 thousand.

The self-proclaimed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is located on the border with Ukraine. On February 27, its president, Vadim Krasnoselsky, called the situation along the perimeter of the republic tense, but at the same time called for calm and promised that "if the people are in real danger, he will personally and immediately inform the citizens about this."

Shortly before this, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated several times that Ukraine was allegedly planning an invasion of Transnistria.

The head of the coordinating press center of the Defense Forces "South" Natalya Gumenyuk, in response to this, said that the Ukrainian military forces concentrated along the border with the self-proclaimed republic "are adequate to the threat that is hypothetically possible."

The Ministry of Defense of Moldova said they did not see a security threat. There, information about the allegedly impending invasion of Transnistria by Ukraine was called false and designed to "cause panic and confusion among people on both sides of the Dniester."

In early February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukrainian intelligence had intercepted Russia's plan to "destroy the political situation in Moldova." Moldovan President Maia Sandu later confirmed that the country was planning to seize government buildings by members of the pro-Russian opposition and foreigners.

Russian peacekeepers have been stationed on the territory of Transnistria, which separated from Moldova, since 1995. After the end of the war between the right and left banks of the Dniester, they had to ensure that the fighting would not resume. In 2020, there were about a thousand Russian military on the territory of the republic, the BBC Russian Service wrote.

Source: RBC , BBC Russian Service

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