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April 26, 2022

Blasts Rock Region of Moldova Home to Russian Troops and Pro-Russia Separatists
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Moldova's president has convened an emergency meeting of her nation's
Supreme Security Council after a series of explosions rocked a region
near Ukraine's southern border that's home to a pro-Russia separatist
movement. Early this morning, twin explosions destroyed a Soviet-era
radio tower that was used to broadcast Russian radio programs across
Moldova. Elsewhere, unknown assailants fired grenades at a state
security building in the provincial capital of Transnistria. The region
in eastern Moldova is home to pro-Russia separatists, and Russian troops
have been permanently based there since the collapse of the Soviet
Union.


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