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kravietz 🦇

An update regarding the yesterday story about #Wagner mercenaries[^1] detained in #Moldova

Today I clarified with the police: “At the first stage of the special operation, three of the 85 identified combatants were shown in video - these are those who received official suspicion. The remaining details of the special operation are not subject to disclosure for now.”

From Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev[^2]

[^1]: https://agora.echelon.pl/notice/Ar7gNZj4zQO7rHvivQ

[^2]: https://x.com/AseyevStanislav/status/1890673695787503624

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agora.echelon.plkravietz 🦇 (@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl)As result of international cooperation #Moldova has detained three war criminals from “Wagner Group” and “Somali” #Russia military units.
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:redstar: Spartacus

#USAID allocated millions to support #NAFO fuckups spreading nazi propaganda, and trying to stop the truth by closing down all accounts determined to fight Western disinformation.

Almost 500,000 dollars in #Moldova, #Poland, #Romania #Slovakia alone.
Imagine the amounts to the idiots of the #Baltic fanatics. Or in #UK and #Germany.
I speak from experience since I can't count how many posts they have reported and how many times they try to shut me down.

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kravietz 🦇

@Brit_In_Moldova As for the #Moldova “$700 million dollars” to #Gazprom, large part of this “debt” has been accumulated by the following scheme:

  1. Russia says PMR (Transnistria) is an “independent republic”
  2. So Russia supplies gas to PMR
  3. But PMR never pays for the gas
  4. So Russia says PMR is part of Moldova, so Moldova should pay for the gas

The did exactly the same thing with Donbas and Ukraine after 2014. The whole scheme is of course based on a contradictory and absurd double recognition of these territories as “independent” and “legally controlled by Ukraine” at the same time, exclusively for the sake of this extortion. But from Western perspective nobody understood this and nobody cared, people here just can’t believe a country as big as #Russia can run such as scam on such a scale.

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João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦

2002
🇷🇺 continue to occupy #Moldova
🇪🇺 shrug

2008
🇷🇺 invade + occupy parts of #Georgia
🇪🇺 "#Putin is just posturing, he's a partner"

2014
🇷🇺 invade + occupy parts of #Ukraine
🇪🇺 "Putin is just posturing, he's a partner"

2022
🇷🇺 full-scale invasion of Ukraine + nuclear threats against #Europe
🇪🇺 fear, red-lines, drip-drip arms production, no strategic objective

2025:
🇺🇸 deal with Putin + threatens to occupy #Greenland and annexe #Canada
🇪🇺 "#Trump is just posturing, he's an ally"

To be continued...

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kravietz 🦇

Solution to the #Transnistria gas crisis comes out to be that… #Russia will buy gas from EU market which will be then supplied via #Moldova and Transnistria will even pay for it.

So yeah, no nuclear war, no Russian landing in Romania or Odesa, none of the terrible scenarios that some people predicted as result of #Ukraine terminating gas transfer for its invader. No big words, Moscow will simply buy gas in EU for money and supply it to its military base in illegally occupied part of Moldova.

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kravietz 🦇

Great explainer about #Moldova #Transnistria and #Gazprom from Polish OSW expert Kamil Całus - he’s probably the best informed person on this area I’ve been reading so far. All following text is translation from his post in Polish, which I’m not formatting as a quote for readability.

On 1 January 2025, supplies of Russian de facto free gas to Transnistria, a separatist territory formally within Moldova’s borders, were halted. This was the result of Kyiv’s failure to renew its contract for the transit of this gas through Ukrainian territory, which expires at the end of 2024. At the same time, Russia refused to send gas via an alternative route, using the Turkstream and Trans-Balkan pipelines, on the condition that Moldova must settle its alleged gas debt to Gazprom, which, according to the Russian side, amounts to USD 709 million.

The interruption of Russian gas supplies led to a serious energy and economic crisis in Transnistria, inhabited by some 300,000 people.

Already on 1 January, all gas boiler plants in the region were switched off. Residential areas, as well as public institutions, including schools, kindergartens and hospitals, were deprived of gas heating. The main power plant in the ‘republic’, located in Dnestrovsc and owned by the Russian company Inter RAO Moldovan GRES, which has so far been powered by gas (its main fuel), has switched to coal, but the coal reserves in the vicinity of the plant are only expected to last for about 50 days. However, the alternative fuel plant cannot fully meet the region’s energy needs, especially as many residents now heat their homes with electric cookers and air conditioners. As a result, the local grid operator is forced to ration the available power, which involves temporary power cuts (for eight hours a day from 7 January). The suspension of gas supplies and the reduction of electricity production has also brought virtually all major industrial plants to a standstill.

Right-bank Moldova (i.e. excluding Transnistria) - despite no longer consuming Russian gas from 2022 onwards - is also affected by the suspension of gas transit through Ukrainian territory.

Until 1 January this year, as much as 80 per cent of the country’s electricity needs were met by Moldova’s GRES (the remaining 20 per cent was generated mainly by CHP plants in Chisinau and Belyce and renewable sources). However, this supply has now been stopped. This has forced the authorities in Chisinau to import at least twice as much expensive electricity from Romania and (to a lesser extent) Ukraine. This in turn has led to an increase (as of 3 January) in electricity tariffs of around 75%. Although, as a rule, imports cover the electricity needs of right-bank Moldova, in exceptional situations (e.g. in the event of large consumption surges or the interruption of energy supplies from Ukraine due to Russian bombing) temporary power cuts are possible.

There is no doubt that Russia has consciously created and is interested in aggravating the current crisis, hoping to undermine the popularity of the ruling pro-Western Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) in Chişinău through this.

This is particularly important in the context of Moldova’s parliamentary elections scheduled for the summer or early autumn. Although Moscow could have maintained gas supplies to Transnistria via an alternative route, it chose not to do so. Russia realised that demanding payment of Moldova’s unrecognised debt to Gazprom (according to an independent audit commissioned by the Moldovan authorities in 2023, it is not US$709 million but only US$8.6 million) and conditioning further supplies to Transnistria on it could not be accepted by Chisinau. The move was intended to allow the Kremlin to shift responsibility for the crisis (and thus also for the increase in electricity prices, potential power cuts and destabilisation of the situation in the region) onto the PAS government, which both the Russian side and the separatist Transnistrian authorities accuse of seeking to create a humanitarian and economic crisis in the para-state. In fact, it was Transnistria that rejected Chisinau’s offer of assistance to the region in recent days.

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X (formerly Twitter)Kamil Całus (@KamilCaus) on XOk, to w ramach małej rekapitulacji tego co dzieje się w Naddniestrzu, krótka (relatywnie) nitka. 🧵 1 stycznia 2025 doszło do zatrzymania dostaw rosyjskiego, de facto darmowego gazu do Naddniestrza, separatystycznego terytorium formalnie leżącego w granicach Mołdawii. Było to
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kravietz 🦇
Many people express their astonishment with the #Transnistria refusal to allow humanitarian help from #Moldova in the face of stopped gas supplies from #Russia.

Here’s the thing - there is no such thing as the 'Transnistrian authorities' as we understand the term.

There is a quasi-mafia corporation Sherif, which has been Moscow's governor in this speck of land since 1990. They don't make decisions in the interests of the local people, they’re there to secure Moscow's interests.

Moscow's current interest is that it does not have the resources to look after its 'geopolitical black holes' such as Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria, so it expects them to 'cope' and somehow 'wait it out' without complaining too much or spoiling Moscow's image in the region.

Something like Medvedev's famous "there’s no money, but you hold on" in Crimea in 2016. Moscow has bigger problems elsewhere and is counting on them to actually 'wait it out'.
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Ukraine Front Daily

#Russia 🇷🇺 made nominal advances in #Petropavlovka on #Pokrovsk direction, in #Uspenovka on #Kurakhove direction and inside #Toretsk urban developments

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 forces in #Kursk oblast hit 🇷🇺 military HQ in #Ivanovskoe in #Rylsk region

🇺🇦 "Madyar" FPV unit received 190'000 FPV drones with fibre optic connection

All industrial enterprises in 🇷🇺 controlled #Transnistria region of #Moldova stopped after gas supplies were cut. 🇲🇩 🇸🇰 continue receiving gas from 🇪🇺 proving 🇷🇺 gas scare was unfounded.

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Ramesh #NotGoingBack

⬆️ >> Soon after #Oct7, in a congressional testimony, #Biden's Def Sec and Sec State, #Austin and #Blinken, both testified that #Israel-#Hamas conflict and the #Russian aggression in Ukraine are "interlinked"

Path from #Kyiv to #TelAviv passes through former #IronCurtain countries #Moldova, #Romania, #Bulgaria, & through #Turkey ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

Alternate path passes through Hungary & #Serbia ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

#Hungary & #Turkey are the #pincers in #Putin's #revanchistDreams
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Screenshot of post at https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111434764452759087
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kravietz 🦇

Professor Cristian Canțâr summary of #Moldova report about #Russia interference in this country:

Moldova’s secret service (SIS) has published a 16-page report (in Romanian) about Russian interference in Moldova’s presidential election and EU referendum. Some highlights in English that stood out to me. First, the Kremlin created a command center in 2024 to interfere in MD’s domestic affairs, with the major goal of compromising the EU referendum (p. 3). The center had branches in MD and involved tens of thousands of people. Second, pro-RU fugitive oligarch Ilan Șor has been getting help from people close to RU oligarch Roman Abramovich.

Third, more than a hundred young people were trained in Moscow on how to fight law enforcement, some of whom later vandalized a bunch of buildings in Moldova (p. 6). Fourth, Moldovan voters in Moscow got bribes (like free food vouchers) in exchange for their vote (p. 7). Fifth, Russia and Șor have managed to get around the ban on a Russian bank’s website in Moldova to transfer money for vote-buying, including using VPNs, Transnistrian banks, and money laundering organizations.

Sixth, Russian secret service agents tried to use the OSCE to get accredited as election observers (MD rejected/withdrew accreditations for 8 such people - p. 10-11). Finally, there’s a social media network spreading Kremlin propaganda about Moldova on Telegram, TikTok, Facebook, and VKontakte (p. 12)

If you’re following MD news, this is a good roundup of RU interference, and if you’re curious in general about RU interference in democratic processes, the report pretty much has the menu that RU has used or can use in other countries:

Full report: https://sis.md/sites/default/files/comunicate/fisiere/Raport_SIS_Public_Interferenta_in_procesul_electoral.pdf (in Romanian)

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