Attacks in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria have raised concerns that Russia will drag the area into the Ukraine war.
The area borders western Ukraine and is controlled by pro-Russian separatists. Russia has permanently stationed some 1,500 troops in the unrecognized sliver of land since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Transnistria’s Interior Ministry said explosions damaged two radio masts that broadcast in Russian in the village of Mayak 30 miles north of the capital Tiraspol at around around 7 a.m. Tuesday, and that one of its military units had been attacked.
In response, authorities in Transnistria blamed Ukraine, raised the area’s “terrorist” threat level to red, and introduced checkpoints around its towns.
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