The pro-Russian government there says a drone has struck a military base in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region. “Today at 2:35 p.m., a kamikaze drone attacked a military base of the Ministry of Defense of the Moldavian Republic of Transnistria in the Rybnitsa district, six kilometers from the border with Ukraine,” the self-proclaimed republic’s Ministry of State Security said. said Friday.
The target was a radar station, the report said. According to the information, the station was slightly damaged and there were no injuries or fatalities. Ukraine was not immediately blamed for the attack.
Not the first attack
On March 17, the separatists had already reported an attack on a military base in Transnistria. At the time, it was said that a drone had been fired from Ukrainian territory. The government in Chisinau dismissed the information as “scaremongering.” Kiev accused Moscow of being responsible for “a provocation in Transnistria.”
The predominantly Russian-speaking region of Transnistria between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border split from the newly independent Republic of Moldova after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin has about 1,500 soldiers permanently stationed in the region.
Source: Krone
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