Transnistria is a very small part of Moldova.
This territory has no strategic value.
At one time, a significant part of the industrial enterprises of Moldova (the former Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic) was located on the territory of Transnistria. These were light industry enterprises, dairies, and meat processing enterprises.
Perhaps they are still in operation. But the possible capture of Transnistria by Ukrainian troops will not change anything in the course of hostilities.
The capture of Odessa, in my opinion, is a very unlikely event. Especially given the impossibility of landing an amphibious assault. So far, we are seeing a classic trench warfare model of the First World War of 2014-2018 or the Iran-Iraq military conflict.
This is all very bad...
Exactly ! PMR is the territory of Moldova, temporarily occupied by a terrorist country, Russia!
A little history of the birth of the PMR - another "metastasis of the Russian world". After the collapse of the ear on clay feet, USSR. Anti-Russian sentiments grew in many republics freed from the slavery of the USSR. This threatened to break any relations, and the complete withdrawal of the occupying country from the liberated republics. Plus, the loss of influence in the region, which Russia was very afraid of losing. Without hesitation, Russia, according to the training manual, launches the scenario of an ethnic internal conflict, and the most idiotic topic is the protection of the Russian-speaking region and the Slavic population from the "Chisinau junta". In 1992, this escalated into a military conflict with the entry of the Russian army into the territory of the PMR. We noticed - that 1992 in Moldova, that 2008 in Georgia, that 2014 in Ukraine - one and the same scenario of "the birth of metastases of the Russian world."
So, the 14th Guards Combined Arms Army of the RF Armed Forces was introduced in the PMR and remains to this day. She really habitually degraded, but still there. Both for Ukraine and, of course, for Moldova, these are risks. Moreover, this is an illegally created, separatist, anti-European entity. Well, plus, on this territory there is the largest ammunition depot in Europe - about 20 thousand tons of ammunition: shells, air bombs, mines, grenades, cartridges ... They were the target of the Russian terrorist army, at the beginning of the second wave of the terrorist attack on Ukraine in February 2022 of the year.
Given that Russia is a terrorist state, and is now extremely dissatisfied with the current government of Moldova, and is making every effort to destabilize the situation in Moldova, the warehouses can be a point of support for a new terrorist attack from the PMR on Moldova, or sabotage groups.
Therefore, I do not exclude that in the near future, the PMR will be denazified, demilitarized, and will be returned to the legal borders of the independent Republic of Moldova. And in the world there will be one less cancerous tumor of the Russian world!
The history of Transnistria is a very tragic story. Initially, there was a single country - the USSR.
The so-called Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was then the place of compact residence of Moldavians. Ethnically and culturally, Moldovans are closest to Romanians. At the same time, Moldova is a purely agrarian country, Moldovans specialize in agriculture. At the same time, an industrial territorial entity (the so-called Transnistria) was artificially included in the Moldavian SSR, the majority of the population, which was predominantly not even Russians, but Ukrainians.
It was the Ukrainians who were the titular nation in this region. And from the point of view of common sense, Transnistria, of course, should have been part of Ukraine, and not Moldova.
Alternatively, this region could be included in Russia (the former RSFSR), since there are a lot of Russians in Transnistria (the second largest nationality after Ukrainians). But the problem was that Transnistria does not border Russia, for Russia it is an enclave.
Since no one planned the collapse of the USSR, Pridnestrovie was part of the Moldavian USSR. When the USSR collapsed, Moldovan troops attacked the peaceful cities of Transnistria (it was a national conflict). In particular, the city of Bendery was destroyed. It was a terrible disaster.
Fortunately, a smart, honest and determined Soviet general, an ethnic Ukrainian Alexander Lebed, was found. Thanks to his decisive actions, this war was stopped, and the killing of civilians was stopped.