🇷🇺 Russia seeks to deploy 10,000 troops in Transnistria near the Odesa region, according to the Financial Times. Moldovan PM Dorin Recean says Putin aims to achieve this by installing a pro-Kremlin government in Moldova.
@noelreports How would they even get there, like, physically?
@vmexell @noelreports they'd need an air corridor. Thus, the need for pro-Russian government in Moldova - it won't object to the air transport of additional troops.
@ramontaba @noelreports Well, there’s EU on one side, and Ukraine on the other. Doesn’t seem to be too likely to happen anytime soon.
@vmexell @ramontaba @noelreports With a friendly government in Moldova, charter flights carrying Russian "tourists" to Chișinău from a Russia friendly third country would seem like a plausible option