Russia extends its war target to Moldova

Berlin With airstrikes against the port city of Odessa at the weekend, the Russian army underpinned its previously announced new war goal: According to the announcement by the Russian Major General Rustam Minnekayev, after the Donbass in eastern Ukraine, a land bridge along the Black Sea coast to Transnistria should also be conquered. This would cut off Ukraine from any access to the sea. Minnekayev, commander of the central Russian military district, justified the plan by saying that the Russian-speaking population in the breakaway Transnistria sub-area of ​​the Republic of Moldova was being oppressed.

In Odessa, the largest city in southern Ukraine and just 40 kilometers from the Dniester Republic occupied by Russian troops, Russian rockets hit residential buildings on Saturday. Eight people were killed, including a three-month-old baby, and 18 were injured, some seriously.