The head of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (PMR Evgeny Shevchuk tried to persuade Kiev to take down the establishment of the border and stop the aggravation of the situation.

As Shevchuk said in the interview to the magazine ", published on the first day of the week, from Ukraine, attempts of tension on the Transnistrian-Ukrainian border, for example, the Ukrainian side continues not to let through the border of the Russian male Residents (living in Transnistria about 140 thousand Inhabitants of the Russian Federation).

"We are ready to establish friendly relations, constructive cooperation, hope that the joint partners in Ukraine, at least those who make decisions, understand the depth of responsibility for the situation, and we urge the Ukrainian authorities to take down the establishment of the border and not to escalate the situation. Transnistria, on their part, not any branch concentrates on the border, despite the complexity of the situation, " said Shevchuk in the conversation log.

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.

in addition, the head of Transnistria explained of Pridnestrovskaia " East of Ukraine, which appeared after the conclusion of the Minsk agreement. According to him, such phrases allow only because of the desire of some political circles in Ukraine to involve Transnistria in this conflict.

Also Shevchuk said that Transnistria has no official contacts with the self-proclaimed Donetsk Lugansk national republics of today does not happen.

Transnistria, 60% of whom are Russian citizens 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. PMR is located between Moldova and Ukraine.

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