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A comment on One Year into the War in Ukraine. Parent comment

Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by dragonwriter on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:09PM (#34932112)
> Transnistria could play precisely that role.

Transnistria isn’t part of Russia and Ukraine isn’t going to take it from Moldova.

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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by bigdict on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:11PM (#34932136)
> Transnistria isn’t part of Russia

It is controlled by Russia.

> Ukraine isn’t going to take it from Moldova.

What is that based on?

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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by dragonwriter on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:14PM (#34932161)
> It is controlled by Russia.

And Ukraine obviously supports the Moldovan government’s opposition to that condition, but Ukraine isn’t going to unilaterally invade Moldova to fight Russians while its got plenty of Russians in Ukraine to deal with.

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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by bigdict on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:22PM (#34932236)
Why are you so certain? Have you heard of the Cobasna ammo depot? It would be mutually beneficial to Ukraine and Moldova if Ukraine were to gain control of that depot and then cede back to Moldova.
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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by gerikson on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:50AM (#34935065)
It would be like gaining control over an unstable nuclear reactor.

https://www.arnika.org/en/hotspots/moldova/the-largest-illeg...

Cobasna is a huge problem in waiting but it's not an urgent problem.

The real solution is for Russia (as the Soviet Union's biggest successor state) to handle the cleanup and reparations when the region is handed back to Moldova.

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