There are Russian-ish soldiers stationed there and some thousands of ... eh... I think artillery shells? Grenades? Well, weapons are stored not under Moldovian control, essentially acting as a three decade stalemate.

Edit:

18 tanks, 107 APC, 73 field guns, 46 antiaircraft installation, 176 tank destroyer, 1 Mi-8T, 1 Mi-24 (2009)

20,000 t Ammunition (2004)

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 6 points 4 days ago

Noting that the majority of the munitions stored there are 50+ years old and are as unstable as hell.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How many soldiers could there be? 10k? 20k?

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Wikipedia said 4-5k and some untranslated quotes implicated not the highest morale, but it'd be best if this goes down without a repetition of the 700 dead in 1992.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I will do a wild guess and say that that number is not useful as distraction or cannon fodder given how russian tactics work