Engineer troops of unrecognized Transnistria launch pontoon bridges in Dniester

04-04-2014 13:26

Engineer troops of the unrecognised Transnistria (Moldova) are building pontoon bridges in the Dniester river on the border with Ukraine, noting that this is part of the exercises, Ukrinform said citing the press office of the Defence Ministry of the unrecognised Transylvania Moldovan Republic.

“Engineer troops must not only fulfill the task – erection of pontoons, but also meet time standards,” the report says. A pontoon company of an engineer unit has stayed in the field camp for a few days. As reported, up to a thousand saboteurs of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Russian Defence Ministry have been deployed to unrecognized Transnistria, who, presumably, had been tasked to destabilize Ukraine’s south, Odesa region in particular. They are also developing a scenario of capturing administrative buildings by armed men in civilian clothes to evoke a forcible response of Ukrainian authorities, provoking a border conflict and imposing the state of emergency or martial law. This will break the conduct of early presidential elections in Ukraine, which is one of the main goals of Putin. Military experts also point to the vulnerability for defense of southern Ukraine, located between the unrecognized Transnistrian and annexed Crimea.