Message of the Minister of defence of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak about the possible threat to national security posed by the self-proclaimed Republic of Transnistria, do not conform to common sense and aims, most importantly, against Russia, said a member of the public Council under the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation Igor Korotchenko.
The twelfth of December, in the hour of the government in the Verkhovna Rada, Poltorak said about the threat to the security of Ukraine from Transnistria. In his vision, Ukrainian with weapons of force required to deploy on the southern borders of the country division number exceeds the battalion.
" All statements of the current Minister of defence of Ukraine completely far-fetched and not related to reality. In terms of moral and economic bankruptcy of Ukraine and its Directors, is active pedaling topics external military danger, to keep society nationalist sentiment and so to distract the population from the ineffective policy of Ministers, who came in the authorities, " said Korotchenko.
He said that speaking about " the Transnistrian threat ", Poltorak was referring to is not equipped with a weapon power of the autonomy, and the Russian peacekeeping contingent.
" It is clear that the current Minister of defence of Ukraine is anti-Russian character, because by his logic the Danger of Ukraine's security comes from the peacekeeping force stationed in Transnistria. If propaganda is today the core business of the Ministry of defence of Ukraine, we can only sympathize with that state, where All priorities shifted absolutely incorrect with common logic and sense, " said the specialist.
Transnistria, 60 percent of its inhabitants are Russians and Ukrainians sought to secede from Moldova even before the collapse of the USSR, fearing that the wave of nationalism Moldova joining Romania. In 1992, after the failed attempts of the authorities of Moldova force to solve the problem, Transnistria was in fact not controlled by the Chisinau area. World in conflict area support a common peacekeeping force, which includes 402 Russian soldiers, 492 Transnistria, 355 Moldovan and ten military observers from Ukraine.
Moscow has stated many times that it is absolutely not involved in the events in the South-East of Ukraine, is not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis. In the capital of Russia noted that All charges against her on as if the intervention in the Ukrainian crisis unsubstantiated.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local residents to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language.
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