you will, and not necessarily totally against what is going on there. so i think a lot of it is disinformation, head fakes, but there is also an elemental aspect of transinistria used to be the old west arabia, if you will, of the old soviet union. so, there s a lot of it, it s potential. they re trying to sell it, if you will, to their own people and the world. fascinating. general peter zwack, appreciate it. coming up, exclusive reporting back at home. cnn has obtained thousands of new text messages sent by president trump s inner circle before, during, and after the january 6th insurrection. could be the clearest picture yet what was going on behind the scenes in that dark time in our history. that s next.
military attack, come by, it s 260 miles. from crimea to the capital, if you will, of the breakaway region. that s a long distance for russian forces already stretched to go, but again, that is aspirational and needs to be watched and potentially very dangerous. i mean, if the russians are being relatively open about their plans, i mean you have this kind of obscure russian general saying, talking about building, you know, a corridor all the way to transnistria, why would they still need a pretext to invade? why would they need a false flag operation or is that just their motus operandi? i think it all goes into the narrative, the false flag, you got to justify it to the russian population. there s a lot of the world that isn t the west and focused, if
of the black sea is what you would call the russians would call novai rosia, new russia, and if you go to their maps, go google new russia in a map, you see a swath of red sort of, of what that was going all the way back to katherine the great, so there s the aspirational goal from a military attack, occupy, it s 260 miles from crimea to tiras pole, the capitol if you will of the break-away region. that s a long distance for russian forces already stretched to go, but again, that is aspirational and needs to be watched and potentially very dangerous. i mean, if the russians are being relatively open about their plans, i mean you have this kind of obscure russian general saying, talking about building, you know, a corridor all the way to transnistria, why
as independent, but there are russian soldiers there, and soviet weapons, too, and has been this concern from the outset expressed by ukraine it could be brought into the war. they worry about is a new front. particularly, if russia is trying to carve out this stretch all the way across, will do it from the east and potentially these forces can do it from the west. phil black, appreciate it, thank you very much. joined now by retired military general peter zwack, you heard phil talking about transistria, what is the possibility of a second front being opened up, is that at all likely? it is a it is a possibility. likely, i would hesitate to use that word. clearly, the russians would like to create some chaos back into the east to the west of ukraine, and also with moldova. there is a garrison of about 1,500, what the russians call peacekeepers, probably not elite
transistria, what more do we know of what happened. so as we understand, ministry for state security building, ukrainian defense intelligence says this building is also the local branch of russia s federal security service, fsb, their take is this thing was blasted by shoulder-mounted antitank rockets in what they describe as a preplanned provocation, they re talking about a false flag operation so ukraine s theory is that this was a deliberately planned operation either by russia or someone in league with russia to raise tensions in transestria to bring this into the war in some way. which is the playbook the u.s. was concerned about happening in the donetsk or luhansk region to get russia involved in ukraine. indeed, and there s been talk of that in belarus as well. belarusian troops becoming involved perhaps as a result of some similar operation. that hasn t happened but ukraine