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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad

Where is Transnistria? The pro-Russia breakaway region that risks being drawn into Ukraine war

AP

Moldova’s pro-Russian breakaway region of Transnistria suffered a series of explosions on Tuesday in which two radio masts in the village of Maiac, Grigoriopol, were damaged, a day after the ministry of state security in the city of Tiraspol was shelled.

No one was harmed in the blasts but the latest incidents, targeting Soviet-era anntennae that carry influential Russian broadcasts, prompted Moldova to place its terror threat level on red alert following a meeting of its Security Council.

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