🇲🇩❌🏳️‍🌈-According to HotNews Romania, Transnistria has passed seven new “laws” targeting LGBTQ+ “propaganda,” promoting child-free lifestyles, and what it deems “disrespect” toward parents.

➡️The legislation includes fines of up to €470 and jail time of up to 15 days. The bans apply to media, advertisements, education, books, and films.

🇧🇾🇷🇴🇲🇩 Romanian border guards stopped 10 trucks carrying fibreglass in September and October 2024 headed for the Moldavizolit Plant in Transnistria.

The fibreglass was coming from Belarus and was directed through a Czech shell company who organised the transports. The transports were stopped at the Albița border crossing with Moldova when the Romanian side noticed that the transport papers’ were fishy.

Fibreglass is an useful industrial material with civilian and military purposes. Fibreglass is commonly used to reinforce hulls for boats, automobiles and more importantly for our story: drones.

Fibreglass can act as a bullet-resistant armour, although it is quite uncommon with carbon fibres and ceramics being the norm.

The Moldavizolit Plant in Tiraspol, Transnistria, the receiver of the fibreglass, does not manufacture drones. They do make plastics and integrated circuits, two key components of drone manufacturing. Moldavizolit, before Moldova blocked its export licence, used to export and supply other Russian defense companies and helped Russia manufacture cruise missiles. With its export licence removed however, the Plant had financial difficulties and its activity dropped to a minimum.

In November 2023, the so-called “president” of Transnistria, Vadym Krasnoselsky, signed a decree ordering the creation of a drone fleet for the separatist militia.

The trucks were supposed to deliver the fibreglass to the Moldavizolit Plant in September 2024 with the last truck being stopped by Romanian border guards on October 2nd 2024. Three days later, the Moldavizolit Plant closed its doors as it was unable to give work to its workers.

The Romanian Customs Authority made a criminal complaint for perjury accusing the Czech company of falsifying documents to hide the intended use of the fibreglass shipments. The company’s lawyers denied any intention of making military related products, claiming that the fibreglass was meant to build a number of elevators.

The trucks have since been sealed. The cargo has not been confiscated yet.

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—🇷🇺/🇺🇦/🇷🇴 WATCH: Massive Russian assault near Romania's border.

🔗 Brave Romania, footage published on August 6th.

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—🇦🇱 NEW: Albania government plans to push a new law punishing "offense" to state institutions, including the prime minister and president, with 3 years in prison.

Critics call it Erdogan-inspired and a threat to free speech.

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—❗🇧🇦/🇷🇸 URGENT: Bosnian Foreign Minister Elmedin Konaković sent an official letter to the US and UK, claiming Serbia and Hungary are attacking Bosnia’s institutions by rejecting their decisions.

🔗 The National Independent

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—🇦🇿/🇹🇷/🇧🇬 NEW: Azerbaijan has launched a new line for serial production of artillery shells that will be sent to Ukraine.

Both 122 and 152 mm shells will be produced with the participation of Turkish and Bulgarian companies.

🔗 Visegrád 24

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—❗🇷🇸/🇧🇦 URGENT: The Republic of Srpska is entering the final phase of its political journey, which will result either in distancing itself from Sarajevo to uphold its Dayton-granted rights, or in Srpska ceasing to exist, President Milorad Dodik said.

🔗 The National Independent

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—🇷🇴 NEW: Poșta Română reported a record-breaking gross profit of 17 million euros in 2024, a 400% increase from 2023, driven by modernization, digitalization, and operational efficiency without government funding.

🔗 Brave Romania

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—❗🪖🇺🇸 UPDATE: Croatia, Albania and Kosovo are planning a joint purchase of weapons.

The arms will be bought in the United States.

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—🇭🇷/🇹🇷 NEW: Croatia begins testing newly delivered Bayraktar TB2 drones after successful training in Turkey.

In the coming days, Croatia will conduct day and night tests nationwide with all six armed drones and their full equipment, enhancing combat, border surveillance, reconnaissance, and wildfire protection capabilities.

These advanced systems are used by 37 countries, including several NATO members.

📰 Source: Ivan Anušić

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