• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    There are Russian-ish soldiers stationed there and some thousands of … eh… I think artillery shells? Grenades? Well, weapons are stored not under Moldovian control, essentially acting as a three decade stalemate.

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    18 tanks, 107 APC, 73 field guns, 46 antiaircraft installation, 176 tank destroyer, 1 Mi-8T, 1 Mi-24 (2009)

    20,000 t Ammunition (2004)

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      Noting that the majority of the munitions stored there are 50+ years old and are as unstable as hell.

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        Wikipedia said 4-5k and some untranslated quotes implicated not the highest morale, but it’d be best if this goes down without a repetition of the 700 dead in 1992.

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          I will do a wild guess and say that that number is not useful as distraction or cannon fodder given how russian tactics work