Moscow is in favor of resolving any issue through political and diplomatic means. Photo: Prensa Latina.

The Russian Foreign Ministry

warned Ukraine and the countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Friday that

it will consider any action against its peace contingent in Transnistria an attack.

The Russian call to attention takes into account the significant accumulation of Ukrainian military personnel and equipment on the border that separates it from the Transnistrian enclave, the communication from the Foreign Office specified this day.

Previously, the Ministry of Defense had denounced the deployment of artillery at firing positions, as well as the unprecedented increase in drone flights by the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the territory of that unrecognized republic.

The Foreign Ministry added that

Moscow is in favor of resolving any issue through political and diplomatic means

, and that no one doubts that the Armed Forces will adequately respond to a provocation by the Kiev regime, if it occurs.

"We are always in favor of solving and will guarantee the protection of our compatriots, the Russian peacekeeping contingent, the military of the Operational Group of Russian Troops and the military depots in the town of Cobasna, in Transnistria," Moscow said. .

The Cobasna depot, by some estimates, occupies about

100 hectares and contains about 20,000 tons of munitions

, mostly obsolete, left behind after the withdrawal of the Soviet Army from East Germany and Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s.

Experts from the Moldovan Academy of Sciences, in a report published in 2005, pointed out that

an explosion at the Cobasna warehouse would be comparable to the detonation of the 10-kiloton nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

In 1992, several districts on the eastern bank of the Dniester, with a predominantly Russian-speaking population, rebelled against Chisinau and proclaimed the creation of the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, fearing that Moldova would merge with neighboring Romania after the collapse of the Soviet Union. .

Chisinau responded by sending troops into rebel territory, sparking an armed conflict that lasted for several months.

Currently,

Transdniester is a territory outside the control of Chisinau

, with all the attributes of a State, including its own currency.

Peacekeeping in the conflict zone is carried out by the Joint Control Commission and a mixed military contingent from Russia, Moldova and Transnistria.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe insists on resolving the conflict through negotiated means in the 5+2 format

(OSCE, Russia, Ukraine, the European Union and the United States as mediators, as well as Moldova and Transnistria).

The rogue republic insists on gaining independence, but Moldova denies it, offering broad autonomy in return.

(With information from Prensa Latina)