On this day in 1992, the Moldova's authorities made a third attempt to take over Dubossary (the city was attacked by the Moldova's paramilitary police twice, i.e. in 1990 and 1991)
The night before, the first chief of the Dubossary's Regional Department of Interior - major Igor Sipchenko was ambushed and killed as he personally moved out to the scene on a false alarm. According to the eyewitnesses, the unknown shooters took cover in the territory of a local Moldova's police department.
The building where the murderers of Igor Sipchenko were hiding at night on March 2 was besieged by the Cossacks. There were only 26 of them including several Cossacks from Don who arrived to defend the young Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.
Dubossary was attacked by the Moldova's paramilitary police twice, i.e. in 1990 and 1991. They replied by the gunfire from the police building to the Cossacks' demands to give away the murderers of Igor Sipchenkoto to the Pridnestrovie's authorities.
Also, the 18-year-old Don Cossack Mikhail Zubkov was killed in action. There left no doubt that the tragic event was a well-planned operation of Moldava's authorities because the 1st paramilitary police brigade was immediately moved out from Kishinev and Orgeev under Dubossary. Its mission was to "cut" the territory of Pridnestrovie in two.
The Dubossary area is the Pridnestrovie's bottleneck. There is an area where the distance between the Dniester River and the Ukraine's border doesn't exceed 8 kilometers. The Moldova's troops started their attacks from the Russia's military base. The 14th army's civil defense regiment of the Russian Federation located in the Kochiery village became their assault objective.
The policemen captured the communication center of the base at 15:00, March 2. Almost at the same time, the second attacking group seized the armory with about 80 assault rifles and more than 30 pistols. Activists of the local Moldova's National Front party's chapter came to the Russian military base at once as soon as it had been captured by the Moldova's Special Forces and armed with the captured weapon.
The Russian 14th army didn't risk doing something without an order from Moscow HQ then. The Russian military men and their families besieged in several buildings were rescued by the soldiers of the Pridnestrovie's Republican Guard just in time.
The Moldova's police had to leave the military base after a short combat action. It was the beginning of the intense warfare between Moldova and Pridnestrovie lasting from March to August of 1992.
