DISINFO: Ukrainian authorities are preparing a provocation against Transnistria
SUMMARY
The Ukrainian authorities are preparing a provocation against Transnistria. The goal is to invade and capture the republic. The invasion will be motivated by the alleged offensive of the Russian Armed Forces from the Transnistrian territories. This provocation will be carried out by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and militants of the nationalist formation "Azov".
RESPONSE
Pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative aiming to portray Ukraine as an aggressor state.
Moldova has dismissed Russian claims of 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 it a part of Russian 'psy-ops" [psychological operation] against Moldova.
Previously, on February 13, 2023, the Moldovan president Maia Sandu told 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.
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