Russia Is Preparing for a Moldovan Invasion as They Seek a Land Corridor via Ukraine.

Atop Russian commander has raised the potential of the Kremlin invasion Moscow-aligned region of Moldova.

Russia’s Central Military District deputy commander Rustam Minnekayev stated that the Kremlin has plans to build a land corridor into Transnistria as part of a scheme to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

In his remarks, Putin stated that the goal of the second phase of Ukraine’s invasion, which the Kremlin refers to as a “special military operation,” was to gain “complete authority” over the Donbass region and southern Ukraine.

Transnistria is a Russian-speaking breakaway entity that is part of Moldova. Moscow supports its economy and stationed soldiers there.

In Mariupol on April 12, 2022. A Russian commander has suggested that the Kremlin’s preparations to invade Ukraine included Transnistria. ALEXANDER NEMENOV.

“Control over the south of Ukraine is another exit into Transnistria, where there are also facts pointing to the mistreatment of the Russian-speaking people,” Minnekayev added, according to Tass.

Before his invasion, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of “genocide” against Russian-speaking Donbas residents.

Protecting Russian speakers was one of his arguments for the war, which was universally rejected by the international world. “We are now at war with the whole globe, as in the Great Patriotic War,” Minnekayev said during a defence industry forum in Sverdlovsk, Russia.

“The world was against us and they never liked Russia,” he added.