CHISINAU, August 25. /TASS/. The Moldovan intelligence service is downplaying the potential consequences of ammo warehouses in the village of Cobasna being blown up as a way to lay the ground for possible provocations against the military personnel guarding them — members of the Operational Group of Russian Forces (OGRF) in Transnistria, former President, leader of the largest opposition Party of Socialists Igor Dodon told TASS.
"There are increasingly more publications in the media suggesting that the West wants to change the political leadership in Moldova and Ukraine. And then the question arises: do [Vladimir] Zelensky and [Moldovan President Maia] Sandu want to provoke a situation around Transnistria to draw our country into the Ukrainian conflict? It is possible that in this situation, some hotheads might resort to provocations, and they are already trying to convince us that nothing terrible will happen if these warehouses are attacked by the Ukrainian military or blown up," Dodon said.
The Information and Security Service and the Military Information Agency said in a report that a possible explosion at the ammunition depots in Cobasna does not pose a threat of a regional catastrophe, as scientists from the Academy of Sciences of Moldova claimed several years ago. According to their data, only 2,800 tons of explosives are stored at the depots; the rest consists of metal and packaging. Moldovan parliament speaker, leader of the ruling Action and Solidarity Party, Igor Grosu, explained that the Moldovan authorities took this step to allay the concerns of European partners, who, according to him, "were sensitive to a possible explosion at the ammunition depots in Cobasna."
