MOSCOW. May 22 (Interfax-AVN) - The supply logistics of Russia's Armed Forces contingent, including Russian peacekeepers serving in the breakaway province of Transdniestria, will be maintained under any circumstances and despite Ukraine's decision to terminate all military cooperation agreements with Russia, Gen. Yury Yakubov, coordinator of the Russian Defense Ministry's General Inspectorate, told Interfax-AVN on Friday.
"Now that Ukraine has severed all military-technological cooperation agreements with Russia, including cargo transit via Ukrainian territory, the Defense Ministry has no other choice but to provide Russian units with all necessary supplies by air, with the help of military-transport airplanes," he said.
"In any case, the Defense Ministry and the General Staff will find ways to send supplies to Russian contingents, including peacekeepers," Yakubov said.
"Certainly, this situation will seriously complicate the supply logistics of our group in Transdniestria. But I am sure that a solution will be found. We will not leave our peacekeepers on a 'starvation diet'," the general said.
Yakubov also fears that the ban on Russian cargo transit passage to Transdniestria via Ukraine may further escalate tensions in this region.