Russian General: Our goal is to reach Moldova, We are at War with the Whole World

"Control over the south of Ukraine is another way to reach Transnistria, where there are also facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population. Obviously now we are at war with the whole world, as it was in the Great Patriotic War, everyone in Europe, the whole world was against us. And now it's the same thing, they never liked Russia."

According to TASS, this was stated by the Deputy Commander of the Central Military District (CMD), Major General Rustam Minekayev at the annual meeting of the Union of Defense Industries of the Sverdlovsk Region.

"Since the beginning of the second phase of the special operation, it has already begun, literally two days ago one of the tasks of the Russian army was to establish full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine," the agency quoted him as saying. According to him, the army's control over Donbas will make it possible to create a land corridor to Crimea.

In addition, "it will affect the vital facilities of the Ukrainian [military], Black Sea ports, through which agricultural and metallurgical products are delivered to [other] countries."

What Minekayev said means that the Russian army will launch an offensive in the west along the Black Sea coast of Ukraine to the borders of Moldova, as the so-called Transnistria is an unrecognized "republic" of Russians and Russian speakers. There is a limited contingent of the former 14th Army of the USSR, and according to unofficial data, it is only about 1,500 people, mainly engaged in guarding large burials with Soviet-era ammunition. At least half of them are almost certainly expired.

Talking about "facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population" seems absurd because for almost three...