General Staff Summary: Russians begin mobilising their troops in Transdnistria
ANASTASIA KALATUR - SATURDAY, 2 APRIL 2022, 07:26
The Russians have begun recruiting units of Russian troops in Transdnistria to make a show of force and engage in provocation on the border with Ukraine.
Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Quote: "Work has been intensified to bring in units of Russian troops based in the Transdnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova to engage in provocation and make a show of force on the border with Ukraine. The redeployment of Russian troops and units of the so-called Transdnistrian-Moldavian Republic was noted. Their objective is to prepare to demonstrate their readiness for an offensive and, possibly, hostilities against Ukraine."
Serhiy Bratchuk, the speaker of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, said that the Odesa region would take these risks into account.
Details: The Russian Defence Ministry also decided to call on reservists in order to organise them into combat-ready units from April 4 to May 23.
In the temporarily occupied territories, Russian occupiers are abducting local people, shelling residential neighbourhoods, rigging civilian infrastructure with explosives and looting.
The Russian invaders are withdrawing troops in some areas, probably to strengthen and regroup for a further offensive in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk areas. On the Donetsk and Luhansk fronts, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed 9 attacks of the invaders, destroyed 8 tanks, 44 armoured combat vehicles, 16 motor vehicles and 10 artillery systems.
Russian troops continue to suffer losses in the Luhansk region. About 30 wounded Kadyrovites [a Chechen paramilitary group supporting the Russian Armed Forces] were admitted to the local hospital in the city of Alchevsk from the area of hostilities near the town of Popasna. According to available information, the bodies of Russian soldiers are being left on the battlefield. Over the past week, irreparable losses of personnel in the units of the so-called 2nd Army Corps have amounted to about 800 people.
