It is according a statement of the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
The russians are inflating the situation in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic to use it as a psychological attack against Ukraine and looking for ways to disperse the Ukrainian army during a difficult defence campaign to protect the Ukrainian Donbass and the south, Defense Intelligence of Ukraine states.
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According to experts, a number of able-bodied and motivated personnel of the unit of the task force of the Russian troops in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova does not exceed 300 people, whose task is to protect ammunition depots in Kovbasna village.
As the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports more than half of all ammunition in storage has expired and cannot be transported. Only 7-8 thousand tons are serviceable and can be used.
About two thirds of all military equipment in Transnistria is not combat-ready fully or partially, and also does not have the material means and production capacity to repair and restore it.
Defense Intelligence of Ukraine predict that, potentially, Transnistria could be used as a springboard to establish supply lines and ensure the deployment of a russian group in the Republic of Moldova, but this will only be possible if a land corridor with russia is created through the southern regions of Ukraine.
As Defense Express reports, situation in Transnistria is getting tense - families of russian military return to Moscow. At the same time the Belarusian army began a sudden military exercises on Wednesday, April 4.
Earlier military training assemblies were announced in unrecognized the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.
Find more on the current details of Ukraine-russia war as well as russia’s combat losses in a publications by Defense Express:
Day 70th of War Between Ukraine and Russian Federation (Live Updates)
Ukraine’s General Staff Operational Report: russia is still trying to maintain the land corridor with the temporarily occupied Ukrainian Crimea
The 70th Day of the War: Russian Casualties in Ukraine
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