A Russian military unit and radio station in the Moscow-backed breakaway Transnistria region of Moldova were attacked Tuesday in the latest in a series incidents believed by Moldovan authorities to be Russian false flags, Bloomberg reports. The attacks were aimed at “creating pretexts for straining the security situation” said a statement from the Moldovan government.
No one was reported injured in the attacks, one of which saw some asshole fire several rounds from a grenade launcher at the state security headquarters in Transnistria’s capital, Tiraspol. The unrecognized breakaway republic of Transnistria, wedged between Moldova and Ukraine, has hosted about 1,500 Russian troops since a war in the 1990s gave the Moscow-backed separatists de facto control over the region. Russian false flag attacks have become fairly haphazard and incompetently executed lately, with one pic of staged “evidence” of Ukrainian Nazi terrorists plotting attacks inside of Russia showing three copies of a video game called “The Sims 3”. The caption of the photo read “SIM cards” as in the chips that allow a phone to access cell networks.