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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenkoan ally of russia, faced a map on tuesday that appears to show russina’s plans to invade the breakaway molded state of molding as part of its larger operation in ukraine.
“At today’s meeting of the Security Council, Lukashenko showed what looks like a real map of the invasion,” Belarusian journalist Tadeusz Gitzan tweeted on Tuesday. “It shows Ukraine’s military facilities destroyed by missiles from Belarus, directions of attacks (everything is in agreement, except for Odessa-Transnistria). Ukraine is also divided into 4 sectors. “
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The invasion of Russia of Ukraine last week prompted officials, including US Ambassador to Moldova Kent Logsden, to express fears that Moldova could also become a Russian target.
“What we are doing here in Moldova is trying to take the temperature exactly what people think,” Logsden said last week from the Chisinau capital, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “There are a lot of concerns just geographically.”
Moldova, which borders Ukraine and Romania, condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and even welcomed 88,000 Ukrainians fleeing their homeland.
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Like Ukraine, Moldova is a former Soviet republic. Formerly known as Bessarabia, the region was a province of the Russian Empire until after the First World War, and then became part of Greater Romania.
The Soviet Union annexed Bessarabia in 1940 and combined it with the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova, forming the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic is one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union that existed from 1940-1991.
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the republic declared independence and became known as Moldova. He became a member of the United Nations in 1992.
“When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, independent Moldova experienced a strong gravitational pull from Romania and Russia. Their political, cultural, linguistic and economic influences have manifested themselves in the first quarter of a century since Moldova’s independence, and all indications are that these influences will continue to play an important role in the country’s future development. ” article by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Lukashenko’s map ostensibly shows that Russia is invading Transnistria, a breakaway state of Moldova dominated by Russian loyalists. Transnistria is internationally recognized as part of Moldova.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko monitors military exercises via video conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, February 19, 2022. The Russian army announced on Friday large-scale exercises of its strategic nuclear forces. Russian President Vladimir Putin will personally observe Saturday’s exercises, which will include a number of practical launches of intercontinental ballistic and cruise missiles, the Defense Ministry said. (Alexey Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
(Alexey Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Russian troops have been stationed in Transnistria since the region seceded from Moldova in 1992, and are said to have served as peacekeepers. The narrow piece of land where about 400,000 people live, became titles in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. Transnistrian officials and activists pleaded for the territory to join Russia, but Russia felt it was not in their interest.
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Lukashenko’s military card also raised fears that Belarus would join Russia in invading Ukraine. Ukraine’s parliament said on Tuesday that Belarus had sent troops to Ukraine, but Belarus’s president – who called himself “Europe’s last dictator” – denied the report.