Dubossary remembers and mourns

Events dedicated to the 32nd anniversary of the start of large-scale aggression of the Republic of Moldova against Pridnestrovie were held in Dubossary. It was attended by city and district leaders, deputy of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Boris German, leaders and representatives of security and law enforcement agencies, representatives of the Renewal Republican Party and public organizations, relatives and friends of the defenders of the republic, and city residents.

The active phase of Moldova’s large-scale aggression against the people of Pridnestrovie began on the night of March 1-2, 1992, when the Chisinau special police squad attacked the city of Dubossary. A ceremony of laying flowers at the resting places of the defenders of the republic and at memorial signs took place today at the Dubossary Memorial of Military Glory. A flower-laying ceremony was also held at house No. 64 in Oktyabrskaya Street, where a granite slab was installed in memory of the first chief of the militia of Dubossary Igor Sipchenko. It was at this place on the night of March 1-2, 1992 that he was fatally wounded.

Grateful residents of Dubossary laid flowers at the site of the death of Don Cossack Mikhail Zubkov and at the memorial sign installed at the Dubossary district department of internal affairs. 

Full-scale military operations of the Republic of Moldova against Pridnestrovie began in several directions at once on March 2, 1992. This was the third attempt by the nationalist-minded leadership of Moldova to seize Dubossary and split Pridnestrovie into pieces in its most geographically narrow area. The fighting continued until August 1992.