Chisinau, 18 September /MOLDPRES/ - A Tiraspol-based Delta military unit has been sent to South Ossetia or Abkhazia (Georgia) under the cover of an away match by the Sheriff club football players, according to insiders at the power-wielding structures.

According to the same sources, on 16 May 2006, a group of the special-purpose military unit, Delta, and other paramilitary formations, deployed on the territory of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian republic, left for the Caucasian region in Russia by a Mercedes bus with Transnistrian number plates, A 888.

The military group's destination is South Ossetia or Abkhazia [both Georgian separatist regions]. Having the status of peacekeeping forces, they are tasked with conducting several special missions. The travel's goal is strictly confidential, and the group's members are prohibited any contacts.

MOLDPRES has got the list and personal data of all the group's members - 49 people - from Tiraspol and other Transnistrian settlements. They are aged between 20 and 52; three of them hold the Moldovan citizenship, and the rest - the Russian and Ukrainian ones.