***Don’t Forget*** that Russia illegally occupies almost 10% of Moldova for “peacekeeping” reasons despite there being no civil unrest.
I read this article but could not make sense of it.
> weapons stored at the Cobasna ammunition depot in northern Transnistria, one of the largest in eastern Europe.
The military depot in Cobasna was created in the 1940s in Transnistria. During the Soviet period, the artillery ammunition depot no. 1411 was a strategic arsenal of the western military district of the USSR. Most of the ammunition was stored here after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the former GDR, Czechoslovakia and other socialist countries.
It contains up to 20,000 tons of Soviet-era weapons from the 14th Guards Army of the USSR and ex-soveit states.
At its peak, the army utilized 229 tanks, 305 various armored vehicles, 328 artillery guns, mortars, and rocket launchers, 74 pieces of aviation transportation and large amounts of Soviet multi-purpose fully amphibious auxiliary armored tracked vehicle and Soviet eight-wheeled armoured personnel carriers.
There seems little reason for Putin to
solve this frozen conflict when he can instead do nothing and park one arm of an invasion/defending force on both Ukraine and NATO’s doorstep.
And a lesson for Bulgarian russophiles. They are supporting a blueprint for Turkish takeover of the Rhodopes region. The only thing different is the lack of a NATO military base staffed by Turkish soldiers, and that almost happened.
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***Don’t Forget*** that Russia illegally occupies almost 10% of Moldova for “peacekeeping” reasons despite there being no civil unrest.
I read this article but could not make sense of it.
> weapons stored at the Cobasna ammunition depot in northern Transnistria, one of the largest in eastern Europe.
The military depot in Cobasna was created in the 1940s in Transnistria. During the Soviet period, the artillery ammunition depot no. 1411 was a strategic arsenal of the western military district of the USSR. Most of the ammunition was stored here after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the former GDR, Czechoslovakia and other socialist countries.
It contains up to 20,000 tons of Soviet-era weapons from the 14th Guards Army of the USSR and ex-soveit states.
At its peak, the army utilized 229 tanks, 305 various armored vehicles, 328 artillery guns, mortars, and rocket launchers, 74 pieces of aviation transportation and large amounts of Soviet multi-purpose fully amphibious auxiliary armored tracked vehicle and Soviet eight-wheeled armoured personnel carriers.
There seems little reason for Putin to
solve this frozen conflict when he can instead do nothing and park one arm of an invasion/defending force on both Ukraine and NATO’s doorstep.
And a lesson for Bulgarian russophiles. They are supporting a blueprint for Turkish takeover of the Rhodopes region. The only thing different is the lack of a NATO military base staffed by Turkish soldiers, and that almost happened.