{"id":1417555,"date":"2022-04-04T08:29:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417555"},"modified":"2022-04-04T08:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:29:38","slug":"pro-russia-state-of-transnistria-denies-troops-are-massing-near-ukraine-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-russia-state-of-transnistria-denies-troops-are-massing-near-ukraine-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Russia State of Transnistria Denies Troops Are Massing Near Ukraine Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpro-russia-state-of-transnistria-denies-troops-are-massing-near-ukraine-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417555&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) \u2013 Authorities in the tiny breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova denied \u201cabsolutely untrue\u201d claims Saturday by Ukraine that Russian troops based there are massing to conduct \u201cprovocations\u201d along Ukraine\u2019s border.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Saturday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that Russian troops already in Transnistria were preparing for \u201ca demonstration of readiness for the offensive and, possibly, hostilities against Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe information disseminated by the General Staff of Ukraine is absolutely untrue,\u201d Transnistria\u2019s Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that leaders have repeatedly \u201cdeclared the absence of any threat to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While at the same time, Russia\u2019s attempt to attack and capture Odesa would bring the war within 50km of Moldova\u2019s borders \u2013 likely destabilising Transnistria, a pro-Russian separatist state where 1,500 Russian troops are based.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe closer it gets, the worse it becomes\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FjUS4uYiES\">pic.twitter.com\/FjUS4uYiES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Henry Foy (@HenryJFoy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HenryJFoy\/status\/1506166576533413891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moldova\u2019s Foreign Ministry also said Saturday there is \u201cno information to confirm the mobilization of troops in the Transnistrian region\u201d and that \u201cstate institutions are closely monitoring the security situation in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Transnistria is a Russia-backed region of Moldova that broke away after a short civil war in the early 1990s, and is unrecognized by most countries. An estimated 1,500 Russian soldiers are stationed there.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20502263\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1235528552.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Transnistrian honour guard soldiers perform during the Alexander Nevsky Memorial Day in the town of Bender on September 12th, 2021. (Photo by SERGEI GAPON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) \u2013 Authorities in the tiny breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova denied \u201cabsolutely untrue\u201d claims Saturday by Ukraine that Russian troops based there are massing to conduct<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}