31 years since the beginning of the large-scale aggression of Moldova against the people of Pridnestrovie

A turning point for the city and the entire young republic was in the day of 1992. The events of the beginning of March are popularly called the “black martisor”. Those who stood up for the city and Pridnestrovie in the early 90s gather every year at the Memorial Complex of Military Glory in Dubossary. The President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic addressed the residents of the republic on the occasion of the memorable date.

Flowers in Dubossary are laid not only on the Memorial of Glory, but also on a memorial plate on one of the residential buildings in the city where the tragedy occurred. A call was received at the militia station, where the head of militia Major Igor Sipchenko went along with other employees on the evening of March 1, 1992. The call turned out to be false. The patrol car was ambushed, and Sipchenko himself was mortally wounded. According to eyewitnesses, the shooters hid in the territory of the local Moldovan police commissariat. The Cossacks blocked the building on the night on the 2nd of March. 18-year-old Don Cossack volunteer Mikhail Zubkov was killed during the negotiations.

The Moldovan authorities began full-scale military operations in several directions at once in March 1992. The fighting went on until August. In total, 170 defenders of Pridnestrovie were killed during the armed conflict in the Dubossary region.