Russian General Lets Slip a Secret Plan to Invade Another Country and Seize Ukraine's Entire Coastli
Source: Daily Beast
IMPERIAL MARCH
Russian General Lets Slip a Secret Plan to Invade Another Country and Seize Ukraine’s Entire Coastline
The Russian military now says the official plan is to create a land corridor all the way along Ukraine’s coast to Moldova, where another border is under threat.
Barbie Latza Nadeau
Correspondent-At-Large
Updated Apr. 22, 2022 9:57AM ET / Published Apr. 22, 2022 7:58AM ET
As Russian troops tighten their grip on the strategic port town of Mariupol, their strategy is finally becoming clear. Russian military commander Rustam Minnekaev now says the second phase of President Vladimir Putin’s “special operation” is focused on establishing a “land corridor” from the Donbas all the way to Moldova, which would cut off the rest of Ukraine from the sea.
“One of the tasks of the Russian army is to establish full control over the Donbas and southern Ukraine. This will provide a land corridor to the Crimea, as well as influence the vital objects of the Ukrainian economy,” Minnekaev said Friday at a meeting with the Union of Defense Industries, as reported by the Russian state-owned Interfax. “Control over the south of Ukraine is another way out to Transnistria, where there are also facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population.” Transnistria is a separatist region of Moldova that has so far not been officially involved in the war despite hosting a Russian military base since the 1990s.
The general’s words suggest that Moldova’s sovereign borders would also come under threat from further Russian expansion. Phony efforts to protect Russian-speaking peoples have often foreshadowed Putin’s imperial invasions.
In reality, Russian speakers have been struck down in the hundreds in eastern Ukraine during the brutal invasion.
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and undo the Soviet's assignment of it to the Ukraine Soviet Republic. Odesa is the prize.
Transnistria is literally about a mile wide - it's a fiction Russia cooked up to hobble and harass Moldova. "Facts of Oppression", my left nut.
