Investigators in Tiraspol opened criminal cases for “terrorism” and “attempted murder” after the so-called Ministry of Security of the separatist region of Transnistria announced the prevention of an assassination attempt on leader Vadym Krasnoselsky at the behest of the SBU. Tiraspol mass media presented the person who was supposed to commit the “terrorist attack”.

Tiraspol “General Prosecutor” Anatoly Guretskyi said that the attackers were preparing a terrorist attack in the center of Tiraspol and, in addition to eliminating the leader of Transnistria, expected a large number of victims, the Russian press reports. news agency RIA Novosti.

According to the information available to Guretskyi, the explosives and impressive elements “were produced or related to Ukraine.”

According to the separatist authorities from Tiraspol, the plan involved the alleged detonation of a Land Rover car, which was supposed to contain 8 kg of explosives, as well as nuts to enhance the effect of the explosion, reports Ziarul Naţional din Chisinau. , quoted by Agerpres.

The so-called Ministry of Security from Tiraspol also reported that detailed information will be presented in the investigative film of the “RMN” Investigative Committee regarding the threat of a terrorist attack in Transnistria, at 8:00 p.m. local time on Channel One. Transnistrian television.

The Tiraspol press also introduced the person who was to commit the “terrorist attack”.

“This is Vyacheslav Kisnichyan. He should have committed a terrorist attack in Tiraspol under the leadership of the SBU. The place of the explosion – the center of the city – was agreed upon by its curators. It was planned that there would be dozens of victims among the people who happened to pass by. Kisnichyan was born in Tiraspol in 1979. Twelve years ago, he moved to Odessa. He has been working at the SBU since February last year. There he was taught to mine various targets. His mission was Transnistria: to control and then remove the leadership of the republic,” reports the press agency “Novosti Pridnestrovya”, citing Ziarul Naţional.md.

In addition, the Tiraspol agency quotes the words of the alleged “terrorist” in the video released by the Transnistrian mass media: “I have my own mission that I must fulfill. This is my duty or death.”

Neither Chisinau nor Kyiv authorities have yet commented on the accusations from Tiraspol, the Moldovan newspaper notes.

Challenges in Transnistria

Recently, the authorities in Tiraspol complained that the Ukrainians would dig trenches and concentrate troops on the border with the Republic of Moldova in the Transnistria region, and the Russian Ministry of Defense warned that any attack on Transnistria “will be perceived as an attack against the Russian Federation”.

The authorities in Kyiv said at the time that these accusations were part of a hybrid war that Russia is waging in the region to divert public attention from the failures on the front in eastern Ukraine, Jurnal.md noted.

The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, recently ruled out an “imminent military threat” from Russia against her country, but warned of a hybrid war unleashed by Moscow through disinformation and asked for help from the international community to fight it, reports said. Chisinau mass media (photo source Dreamstime)