CHISINAU, April 28. /TASS/. Authorities of the unrecognized Transnistria have banned the flights of unmanned aerial vehicles in its airspace after the incident near military depots in the vicinity of the Kolbasna village, the government agency Novosti of Transnistria reported on Thursday
"The drones are banned from flying above Transnistria without the consent of the Ministry of State Security. The decree was signed by President Vadim Krasnoselsky," the report said.
The authorities of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian republic declared heightened terror alert on April 26 after a series of attacks committed on Transnistrian territory.
On April 25, the building of the Ministry of State Security in Tiraspol came under an attack involving hand-held grenade launchers, a military base near the Parkany settlement also was attacked. Two radio antennas were blown up in the Mayak settlement in Transnistria on April 26. The next day, a shooting incident was reported near an ammunition depot in Kolbasna, which stores over 20,000 tonnes of ordnance, relocated there after Soviet forces’ withdrawal from European states. Drones launched, according to the Transnistrian authorities, from Ukraine were spotted near Kolbasna. Transnistrian President Vadim Krasnoselsky said that the trail of the terrorist attacks led to Ukraine.