Originally Posted by
Davef68
<Cynical mode on.> False flag to justify 're-enforcing' region with troops who just might be also able to invade Ukraine from the West? Possibly via sea?
those ~1500 troops aren't going nowhere, they just don't have enough of anything for it, the Ukrainian forces in the west would mop the floor with them. If its a false flag it would more likely sound like the main force from east would try a push to Odessa to create a land corridor to Transnistria. That again would require the Russian to take weight off Donetsk/Luhansk as they haven't been able to do it with current force. I am struggling to see what the Russians could do militarily at this point.
Transnistria isn't connected to sea so there's nothing there either.