Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky, leader of the ultra-nationalist LDPR party, called on Moscow to step up its support for Transnistria, which he said on a TV show on Wednesday that the region “belongs to Russia,” the official Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported. , with reference to Agerpres.

“Transnistria is our territory. It is necessary to restore the airport of Tiraspol. In addition to the Moldovskaya TPP (Kuchurganskaya TPP, none), it is necessary to develop other important infrastructure projects. We are in contact with the leadership of Transnistria,” said Slutsky during a visit to the Russian Far East.

Slutsky’s statements were broadcast on Tuesday by a TV channel belonging to the LDPR, an entity that the Russian opposition press calls “a creation of the FSB”, the former KGB.

Leonid Slutsky appears to be following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Volodymyr Zhirynovsky, a controversial extremist politician who died in April and was known for his anti-Western tirades, independent Russian outlet Zona.Media recently noted, and whom Russian authorities have declared a foreign agent.

Leonid Slutsky paraphrased Hitler

At the funeral of journalist Daria Dugina, the daughter of conservative ideologue Oleksandr Dugin, the LDPR leader pronounced the formula “One country, one president, one victory!”, recalling the Nazi slogan “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer.”

Transnistria – a separatist region in the east of the Republic of Moldova, where Russia has the Operational Group of Russian Forces (GOTR) and peacekeeping forces – periodically returns to the speeches of various officials from Moscow, media over the Prut mentions.

Lavrov declares that he will protect the interests of the Russian-speaking population of the Republic of Moldova

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on September 2 that Moscow will do everything to protect the interests of the Russian-speaking population of the Republic of Moldova, and that the authorities in Chisinau will avoid direct dialogue with Tiraspol because they want to resolve the conflict in Moldova. other way than diplomatic.

In a subsequent statement, the head of Russian diplomacy warned that a threat to the security of Russian troops in Transnistria could provoke a military clash with Moscow.

The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, who has always advocated a peaceful and unified political solution to the conflict in Transnistria, qualified the statements of the head of Russian diplomacy as “an ordinary provocation” aimed at destabilizing the situation. the situation in the Republic of Moldova against the background of the war started by Russia in neighboring Ukraine.

She urged Moldovan citizens “not to be manipulated” by such statements, Deschide.md reports.

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