Transnistria says weaponized drone attack thwarted in fear RussiaTransnistria will use the Breakaway Region of Moldova reports a failed weaponized drone attack in the separatist pro-Russian region of Moldova. The objective of the attack is an armed drone that failed to detonate close to a telecom center.
Terror attacks are feared
On Tuesday, the self-proclaimed republic of Transnistria's Interior Ministry said a weaponized cargo drone got seized overnight near a large telecom hub in Mayak village, reported RT.
According to the ministry, the intercepted drone is a homemade device from various pieces.
The size of the UAV is one and a half meters that could carry 20 kilograms about 30 kilometers from its operator.
It carried a canister with an unidentified brown liquid with a small barrel containing two kg. of a plastic explosive; included were the detonators. Included was a mechanism to drop the explosive payload.
The target said the Interior Ministry is to destroy a transformer cooling station of the telecom center. Should the goal be achieved, the whole facility would be inoperable, and said the Ukrainian is where it came from, cited the Press United.
In an attack in April by someone, the drone was stopped by border guards in the facility. In April, two big radio masts transmitting Russian radio stations got blown up in the center.
The breakaway republic suffered a string of mysterious incidents involving the region's critical civilian and military infrastructure, including the foiled weaponized drone attack. Other attacks include one at the Ministry of State Security was attacked by three unknown assailants, firing rockets that damaged windows and the building façade, noted Financial Times.
Several explosions also transpired at a military base outside Tiraspol, the capital city of Transnistria.
Leader of the self-proclaimed republic, president Vadim Krasnoselsky said it was Ukrainians doing the acts of terror and told Kyiv to investigate the matter.
Also called the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) is not an official state between the Dniester River and Ukraine in Moldova's east sector.
Kyiv fears Tiraspol joining Russia
Ukrainian officials are wary the pro-Russian breakaway province will be part of a new offensive by Russia, mentioned Newsweek.
Ukraine and Moldova say it's Moscow's plot against EU-centric Moldova led by President Maia Sandu; to unsettle the government.
Nicu Popescu, Moldova's Prime Minister, remarked that most citizens, even in Tiraspol, remarked early in the week. He added they want to avoid trouble, but terror attacks are increasing.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's Main Intelligence Directorate posted last Sunday; its Facebook page and website displayed an image of a Transnistrian newspaper, dated May 2, 2022, which mentions more attacks that have not yet occurred.
Its credibility has been called into question, and Newsweek has been unable to verify its authenticity independently.
According to the New Voice of Ukraine, the Ukrainian newspaper Segodnya, the editor-in-chief of the real Transnistria newspaper, Alexander Karasyov, labeled the front-page image a fake.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Defense Ministry did not indicate how it happened to come across the paper.
Claimed that the paper represented in the image can be inferred as an alarm that false-flag attacks in the secessionist region will serve as a justification for local forces to join Russia against Ukraine.
Tiraspol left Moldova in the 1990s when the USSR collapsed and kept a close link to Moscow. There are Russian peacekeepers and many Russian citizens.
In Transnistria, the weaponized drone attack that was stopped is concerning its leaders that Ukraine might be moving in, while the west wants to isolate Russia from its allies.
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