MOSCOW, December 23. /TASS/. The deployment of Moldovan troops to Transnistria, which is what President Maia Sandu reportedly plans to do, would openly violate agreements to resolve the conflict, Vasily Korchmar, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s special envoy and member of the expert board of the Officers of Russia organization, told TASS.

In 2013-2015, Korchmar was the Russian co-chair of the Joint Control Commission for the peacekeeping operation in the zone of the Moldovan-Transnistrian conflict.

Earlier, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said in a statement made available to TASS that Moldovan President Maia Sandu was considering a military operation in Transnistria, and no one could guarantee that she would not attempt to start a war.

"The Cuciurgan power station is located in the conflict zone controlled by the peacekeeping forces. The deployment of Moldovan troops to the area would be a blatant violation of the documents that the parties signed in order to resolve the conflict, particularly within the Joint Control Commission. Clearly, Sandu’s foreign masters have imposed a plan on her to seize Transnistria by force, which is very similar to the scenario that was executed in Georgia in August 2008," Korchmar pointed out.

"Chisinau officials apparently hope that it will be possible to resolve the conflict in accordance with the Nagorno-Karabakh scenario, using military force with the assistance of their sponsors. The Moldovan authorities are currently entranced by their rose-colored illusions of Western democracy, blindly following the West’s Russophobic plans aimed at weakening Russia. Chisinau is unlikely to see the light any time soon and realize the need to assert sovereignty in making decisions in the interests of the people of Moldova and Transnistria, which is what has recently happened in Georgia," Korchmar noted.