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2 of April, 16:31

Rogozin: Kiev escalate the situation on the border with Transnistria
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, explaining the incident that occurred on the border with Transnistria, said Kyiv escalates the situation.

"Ukraine escalate the situation on the border with Transnistria ", - he wrote on his own Twitter on Thursday.


The unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (PMR) is located between Moldova and Ukraine. First of press service of Department of state security (KGB) of the TMR stated that Ukrainian soldiers began shooting two Transnistrians who, returning home, tried to cross the border of Ukraine with Transnistria outside the pass. One of them was seriously wounded.

The actions of the Ukrainian soldier called to the KGB by failures obligatory acts, regulating the use of arms in the direction of the territory of neighboring countries. In fact, conflict Republican Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the criminal code according to section 110 of the criminal code of the PMR " grievous bodily harm ".

The state border service of Ukraine has rejected accusations that the Ukrainian border guard began shooting two residents of Transnistria. The Ministry told that the weapons May have used the border guards of the unrecognized Republic.

Foreign Minister of the Republic also sent requests to the special envoy of the acting head of the OSCE radojko Conflicts and chief of mission of the European Union border assistance to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM) Francesco bastagli with the application to assess the incident in the context of existing international standards, and to help conduct an objective investigation of all the circumstances of the incident.

Transnistria, 60% of the inhabitants are Russians and Ukrainians, sought to secede from Moldova even before the destruction of the USSR, fearing that the wave of nationalism Moldova joining Romania. In 1992, after failed attempts by the authorities of Moldova force to solve the problem, Transnistria was in fact beyond the control of the Chisinau area.

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