Experts have said Moscow may be setting the stage for a "false flag operation" in the breakaway Transnistria region of Moldova.

Then, on Wednesday, Russia added a new allegation — that the US-led NATO ... could also be setting conditions “for a false flag operation in Transnistria”. Transnistria is a Russia-allied ...

Men clapped and sang as the new flag was raised under falling snow in the Russian capital. "Today the embassy opened and is working normally under a new flag," an embassy representative told TASS ...

One of the vehicles flew an old Soviet flag. “The attack was ... its losses on the Pokrovsk axis. Russian industry probably builds fewer than a thousand new infantry fighting vehicles a year.