{"id":29790,"date":"2023-02-23T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=29790"},"modified":"2023-02-23T07:00:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T07:00:33","slug":"russia-accuses-ukraine-of-planning-to-invade-transnistria-moldova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/02\/23\/russia-accuses-ukraine-of-planning-to-invade-transnistria-moldova\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia accuses Ukraine of planning to invade Transnistria, Moldova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia\u2019s defence ministry accused Ukraine on Thursday of planning to invade Moldova\u2019s breakaway Transnistria region after a false-flag operation, the RIA news agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry said Ukraine planned to stage an attack by purportedly Russian forces from Transnistria as a pretext for the invasion, according to RIA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separately, the TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin as saying the West had instructed the Chisinau government to stop all interaction with the Moscow-backed Transnistrian administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moldovan President Maia Sandu accused Moscow earlier this month of planning a coup to overthrow the government and drag Transnistria into its war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mainly Russian-speaking region broke away from then-Soviet Moldova in 1990. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, pro-Russian separatists fought a bloody war with the Moldovan government forces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s defence ministry accused Ukraine on Thursday of planning to invade Moldova\u2019s breakaway Transnistria region after a false-flag operation, the RIA news agency reported. The ministry said Ukraine planned to stage an attack by purportedly Russian forces from Transnistria as a pretext for the invasion, according to RIA. Separately, the TASS news agency quoted Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11261,5304,5919,6731,5345,2264,5252,6620,6067,9603,5340,7980,3805,12526,3457,5217,7820,9602,5180,7231,5251],"class_list":["post-29790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-accused","tag-attack","tag-breakup","tag-coup","tag-foreign-minister","tag-government","tag-invasion","tag-maia-sandu","tag-moldova","tag-moldovan-president-maia-sandu","tag-moscow","tag-overthrow","tag-president","tag-pro-russian","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-soviet-union","tag-transnistria","tag-ukraine","tag-union","tag-war"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}