The blasts in southern Russia on Wednesday followed a large fire this week at a Russian oil storage facility in the Bryansk region near the border. Without directly acknowledging Ukraine’s responsibility, Presidential Adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said it was natural for Russian regions where fuel and weapons were stored to learn about “demilitarization”. This seemed to be a sharp reference to Moscow’s stated goal of a two-month war in Ukraine, which the Kremlin calls a special military operation to disarm and “de-energize” its neighbor. “The reasons for the destruction of military infrastructure in border areas can be quite different,” Podolyak wrote in the Telegram, adding that “sooner or later the debts will have to be repaid” when one country decides to attack another. . “Karma is a tough thing,” he said, referring to the “disarmament” of warehouses in Belgorod and Voronezh. In a separate development, the pro-Russian breakaway region of Moldavia in Transnistria said on Wednesday that shots were fired from Ukrainian territory overnight at a village housing a large ammunition depot. View of the damaged building of the Ministry of State Security, in Tiraspol, the capital of the breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova (AP) The region’s interior ministry also said it had spotted drones that it said had been launched from Ukraine. Moldova raised the level of terrorist threat on Tuesday and the Kremlin expressed grave concern as two blasts damaged Soviet-era radio stations in the breakaway region of Transnistria, where authorities said a military unit was also targeted. Montolova authorities said shots were fired late Wednesday morning at the border village from Ukrainian territory. He did not give further details, but said no one was injured. Russia has a group of troops in Transnistria guarding many tons of ammunition stored in the area before the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. Moscow also has peacekeeping forces there after a clash between separatist and Moldovan forces. The Transnistrian Interior Ministry cited “experts” as saying that Cobasna has the largest ammunition depot in Europe. Asked for an answer, the Ukrainian military said Wednesday it had no comment and referred to a statement from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, in which Kyiv accused Moscow of trying to drag Transnistria into its war against Ukraine. The Moscow-backed region said it had been the target of a series of attacks and accused Ukraine of meddling. Kyiv has blamed Moscow for the masterminds of the attacks, which included explosions that damaged two radio stations. The Kremlin has announced that it will impose sanctions on 287 British MPs (PA) The Kremlin has said it is seriously concerned about developments that will not help the currently strained relations between Russia and the West. In a recent blow to the relationship, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that it had imposed sanctions on 287 members of the House of Commons in retaliation for UK measures to invade Ukraine. “In response to the British government’s decision on March 11 to add 386 members of the State Duma to the sanctions list, in a reciprocal move, 287 members of the House of Commons were personally restricted,” the ministry said in a statement. statement.
