The so-called security services of the breakaway province of Transnistria in eastern Moldova said on Thursday they had thwarted a Ukrainian intelligence plot to assassinate the leader of the region’s pro-Russian administration.
According to the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, the so-called Ministry of State Security of the “Moldovan Transnistrian Republic”, which is not internationally recognized, reported that the assassination attempt on Vadim Krasnoselsky had been thwarted, citing an organized terrorist operation in Ukraine.
According to a press release allegedly issued by the separatist region’s so-called de facto ministry, the “attempted murder” suspects have been arrested and are “confessing.”
The so-called Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev said on Russian television that materials that would be used in the “assassination attempt” were also found, allegedly made in Ukraine.
“We are talking about materials and technical means, from which it is clear that they are produced or are related to Ukraine,” he said on the air of the Rossiya 24 network.
The Russian agency cites statements by the so-called Transnistrian prosecutor Anatoly Guretsky that the perpetrators were preparing a terrorist attack in the center of Tiraspol, that is, the regional center of Transnistria, and “in addition to eliminating the leaders of the republic, a large number of victims were counted among the inhabitants,” he said.
No evidence of the alleged assassination attempt has been presented at this time.
Transnistria, a thin strip of land on Moldova’s border with Ukraine, has unilaterally declared independence from Moldova for more than three decades, and its territory, east of the Dniester River, is home to hundreds of Russian soldiers as a peacekeeping force. a predominantly Russian-speaking province of Romanian-speaking Moldova.
Tensions in the region have risen as both the Moldovan government in Chisinau and the West fear provocations that would give Russian forces a pretext to expand the war from Ukraine into eastern Moldova, although the original plan for total control of the Ukrainian coast (including Odessa) to pool Russian sovereignty and territories Transnistria fell apart from the first months of the Russian invasion in 2022.
Source: RIA Novosti, Reuters.
Source: Kathimerini
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