The Ministry of Defense said that Kyiv is preparing a provocation against Pridnestrovie

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The Ukrainian military is in the near future preparing an armed provocation against the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, it is planned to be implemented, including with the involvement of the nationalist battalion “Azov”*. This was reported in the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

As a pretext for the invasion, it is planned to use a staging of an alleged offensive by Russian troops from the territory of Transnistria.

“For this, the Ukrainian saboteurs participating in the staged invasion will be dressed in the uniform of the military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” the Russian military department said in a statement.

The Russian Defense Ministry assured that they are closely monitoring the situation on the border between Ukraine and Pridnestrovie and are ready to respond to any changes.

Earlier, the acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, in an interview with Parliamentary Newspaper, called provocations, sabotage and lies the favorite tricks of the Kyiv regime. Pushilin said that as a negotiator from the republic in the Minsk process, he was repeatedly convinced that Kyiv did not comply with any agreements, and therefore any negotiations with him would, in his opinion, be ineffective.

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* A terrorist organization banned in Russia.