Ukraine secret service: Russia wanted to set up a breakaway region of Odessa, to destabilize Moldova and Romania

The head of Ukraine’s Secret Service, Vasily Gritak, said Russia tried in 2015 to set up a breakaway region of Odessa and to destabilize the situation in Republic of Moldova and Romania, in an attempt to trigger a ‘hybrid war’ in Europe, deschide.md informs, quoted by hotnews.ro.

According to him, until April 2015 it was planned the blowing up of two bridges in the Odessa region to isolate nine Ukrainian districts, followed by the setting up of a separatist region called the Bessarabian People’s Republic.

“We have found a lot of documents revealing that it was already established the candidacy to lead such a republic. According to our information, it was planned that ‘little green men’ to be introduced in Ukraine from Transdnestia and subsequently to destabilize the situation in Moldova, as well as in Romania, and the triggering of a hybrid war in Europe,” Gritak said according to the source.

He argued, however, that currently the possibility of separatist movement in the region is infinitesimal.

Several people were detained in June 2015 by the SBU after the constitutive congress of the so-called ‘Bessarabia People’s Parliament (Rada)”.