DISINFO: The EU might start a war against Belarus and Transnistria
SUMMARY
The war in Ukraine has turned into a positional warfare which can last a long time. Europe dislikes this idea and is thinking how to end it. To expand the conflict, Europe is pondering the ideas of war of Poland and Lithuania against Belarus or of Moldova against Transnistria.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about alleged Western attempts to organise a colour revolution in Belarus, Western plots against Transnistria, and presenting Poland and Lithuania as states with aggressive plans towards Belarus. These claims became more frequent following the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 in an attempt to obfuscate Russia’s aggression. Read an earlier debunk of the Belarus-related claims here.
The Moldovan authorities repeatedly emphasised that the only way to resolve the Transnistrian conflict is the peaceful one. They dismissed Russian claims of an alleged Ukrainian plot to invade a breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria after staging a false-flag operation. “We call for calm and for information to be received [by the public] from official and credible sources of the Republic of Moldova,” the government said in a statement. It also called these claims part of Russian 'psy-ops" against Moldova.
Previously, on February 13, 2023 Moldovan president Maia Sandu stated that the Moldovan government believes Russia has plans to destabilise the internal situation in Moldova in order to topple the democratically elected government. “The plan for the next period involves actions with the involvement of diversionists with military training, camouflaged in civilian clothes, who will undertake violent actions, attack some state buildings, and even take hostages,” Sandu told reporters at a briefing.
Transnistria is de-facto controlled by Russia since 1992, the ECHR ruled. Russia has violated human rights and the right to freedom and security in Transnistria.
Read similar cases claiming that the West is pushing Chisinau to attack Transnistria, that Transnistria is Russian, that Moldova is preparing for a new war against Transnistria, and that the CIA will try to repeat a Maidan scenario in Belarus.