Moldova is preparing for a new war against Transnistria. Who needs a second front in Europe?
Pre-Kremlin disinformation narrative repeated many times over the past two years and also resumed since the latest Russian aggression against Ukraine, on February 24, 2022. See here a similar case claiming that US arms Moldova for war in Transnistria, and here a case saying Kyiv is pushing Moldova to aggression against Transnistria.
The support, announced in June 2022, of 40 million euros from the EU for the Moldovan National Army and the Comment from July 2022 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Moldova requesting the withdrawal of the contingent of troops that the Russian Federation has since 1992 in the Transnistrian region, the de facto territory of Republic of Moldova, are presented as arguments for the claim above.
The aid announced by the EU for Moldova is part of the European Peace Facility and "will strengthen the capacities of the logistics, mobility, command and control, cyber defense, unmanned aerial reconnaissance and tactical communications units of the Armed Forces of Moldova by providing non-lethal equipment, supplies and relevant services, including training related to the equipment".
The statement made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not contain any reference to possible response actions in the event that Russia does not withdraw its troops from Transnistria: ”We also reiterate on this occasion, based on the constitutional neutrality of the Republic of Moldova, the relevant decisions adopted during the OSCE Summit in Istanbul in 1999 and in order to implement Resolution 72/282 of the UN General Assembly, the need for the Russian Federation to withdraw its military forces and ammunition from the territory of the Republic of Moldova”, is stated in the Comment of MFA made on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the launch of the peacekeeping operation in the Transnistrian region.
The authorities of the Republic of Moldova denied several times that they have any intention of attacking Transnistria and emphasized that the only way to resolve the Transnistrian conflict is the peaceful one. The last statement in this regard was made by the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Moldova, Anatolie Nosatii, who said, on September 8, in an interview, that ”currently, there is no danger of war, of a military conflict on the territory of the country”.
Ukrainians are not "Nazis", except for the ruling elite.
Be it Western (Ukrainians), there is nothing bad about them. They are not "Nazis" at all. "Nazis" are those who are on top, starting from those who sniff, drink and then blather from TV screens.
This is an new twist on the Nazi Ukraine narrative. One of the Kremlin’s most common disinformation narratives to justify its devastating war against Ukraine is the lie that Russia is pursuing the “denazification” of Ukraine. In reality, Ukraine is not a Nazi state, does not have a Nazi ruling elite and Nazism is not Ukraine’s ideology.
The myth of Nazi-ruled Ukraine has been the cornerstone of Russian disinformation about the country since the very beginning of the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests, when it was used to discredit the pro-European popular uprising in Kyiv and, subsequently, the broader pro-Western shift in Ukraine's foreign policy.
Unharmed Russian Iskanders reached the target in the Dnepropetrovsk region. There, at the Chaplyne railway station, echelons of military equipment and manpower of the enemy were destroyed. The footage clearly shows the train with cargo of military equipment. As a result of the hit by Iskanders', more than 200 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers who were heading to the combat zone in the Donbas were eliminated.
The claim is part of an ongoing pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign concerning Russia’s unjustified invasion of Ukraine.
On 24th August 2022, Ukraine's independence day, a Russian rocket strike hit a Ukrainian railway station in Chaplyne. 25 civilians were killed, including two children, and 31 were injured, including four children, as a result of Russia's missile strike. One of the wounded is a 13-year-old boy, who, along with his mother and 11-year-old brother, were buried in a building destroyed by the attack. It was not possible to save the 11-year-old boy. Two private houses were also destroyed and about 30 buildings were damaged. See footage by Reuters with comments from Radio Liberty's Ukrainian service.
The West has lost all morals and is supporting Nazism in Ukraine, which means it is Nazi as well.
This is a recurring disinformation narrative from pro-Kremlin outlets discrediting the West and serving as justification for Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine.
The myth of a Nazi Europe has been widely used by pro-Kremlin outlets since Russia attacked Ukraine and illegally annexed its peninsula of Crimea in 2014. The European Union was set up with the aim of ending the frequent and bloody wars between neighbours, which culminated in the Second World War. In 2012, the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing the causes of peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.
