MOLDOVA PRIDNESTROVIE (TRANSNISTRIUM)
Message from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the PMR:
After the antenna explosions that occurred last week, the television and radio center was under heavy guard. On the night of May 3, while patrolling the territory of the PRTC, border guards found a drone. The drone has been neutralized.
An investigative team, experts, and sappers arrived at the scene of the incident. Experts investigated the location of the drone detection and the attached cargo.
The drone with a diameter of one and a half meters is assembled from various components. The equipment is so powerful that it is able to move loads up to 20 kg up to 30 km from the operator who controls it.
Attached to the aircraft was a five-liter plastic canister containing an unknown brown liquid and a plastic box approximately 60 cm long and 25 cm in diameter, which contained 2 kg of plastid. The explosives were loaded with detonators. The whole structure was closed on a radio device, which was supposed to work remotely.
A drone with such a dangerous cargo, according to experts, was launched from the Ukrainian side.
Probably, the attackers planned sabotage. Their goal was a hangar, where mechanisms were installed for cooling the transformers of the radio and television center. In the event that they managed to realize their plans, important equipment of the PRTC would be disabled.
(Anatoly Klepov-RUS, RUSdx #1184 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 8)
Forwarded from TSV Pridnestrovie
Everything is calm in Mayak, but the employees are nervous, Vitaly Kucherenko, director of the radio and television center, told TSV.
"The night passed calmly. There were no new drones. The situation in the team is nervous, we calm people down. Everyone goes to work. Our team rest live in the Rybnitsa district and other villages of the Grigoriopol district."
A drone with a plastid and an incendiary mixture was neutralized on the territory of the radio and television center yesterday. They wanted to destroy the transformer cooling system with a drone and disable the entire RTC.
(Dmitriy N.P., [May 05, 17:54], Radio reception - Telegram;
via Anatoly Klepov-RUS, RUSdx #1184 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 8)
Why is it important for someone to destroy the Mayak relay in Transnistria?
A veteran of the armed forces, Igor Dudkevich from the PMR, discusses why the Mayak radio and television center is the target for destruction.
Video in Russian - 0:57 m/sec
https://vk.com/radioko?z=video161080476_456239041%2F0aa8f1f0b01eaf58f1%2Fpl_wall_-161080476
https://vk.com/radioko
(via Anatoly Klepov-RUS, RUSdx #1184 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 8)
(WWDXC Top Nx 14 May 2022)