Radar station hit

Drone attack in pro-Russian Transnistria

The border between Transnistria and Moldova(Bild: AFP)

A drone has struck a military base in Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria, according to the pro-Russian government there. "Today at 2:35 pm, a kamikaze drone attacked a military base of the Ministry of Defense of the Moldovan Republic of Transnistria in the Rybnitsa district, six kilometers from the border with Ukraine," the Ministry of State Security of the self-proclaimed republic said on Friday.

The target was a radar station, it added. According to the information, the station was slightly damaged, but there were no injuries or fatalities. Ukraine was not held directly responsible for the attack.

Not the first attack
On March 17, the separatists had already reported an attack on a military base in Transnistria. At the time, it was reported that a drone had been fired from Ukrainian territory. The government in Chisinau rejected the information as "scaremongering". Kiev accused Moscow of being responsible for "a provocation in Transnistria".

The predominantly Russian-speaking region of Transnistria between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border seceded from the newly independent Republic of Moldova after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin has stationed around 1500 soldiers permanently in the region.