There are Russian-ish soldiers stationed there and some thousands of … eh… I think artillery shells? Grenades? Well, weapons are stored not under Moldovian control, essentially acting as a three decade stalemate.
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18 tanks, 107 APC, 73 field guns, 46 antiaircraft installation, 176 tank destroyer, 1 Mi-8T, 1 Mi-24 (2009)
Wikipedia said 4-5k and some untranslated quotes implicated not the highest morale, but it’d be best if this goes down without a repetition of the 700 dead in 1992.
Sooo… it appears to be a county of Moldova? Surely one county doesn’t have that jurisdiction? So why didn’t they just say Moldova?
It’s basically a region owned by pro-Russian rebels.
Because it’s a semi-autonomous state inside a state.
It doesn’t reflect Moldova just as Moldova doesn’t reflect it.
There are Russian-ish soldiers stationed there and some thousands of … eh… I think artillery shells? Grenades? Well, weapons are stored not under Moldovian control, essentially acting as a three decade stalemate.
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18 tanks, 107 APC, 73 field guns, 46 antiaircraft installation, 176 tank destroyer, 1 Mi-8T, 1 Mi-24 (2009)
20,000 t Ammunition (2004)
How many soldiers could there be? 10k? 20k?
Wikipedia said 4-5k and some untranslated quotes implicated not the highest morale, but it’d be best if this goes down without a repetition of the 700 dead in 1992.
I will do a wild guess and say that that number is not useful as distraction or cannon fodder given how russian tactics work
Noting that the majority of the munitions stored there are 50+ years old and are as unstable as hell.