Ukraine has concentrated on the border with Transnistria from five to seven thousand soldiers, Tiraspol sees this as an unfriendly act, said the leader of Transnistria Yevgeny Shevchuk.

"are centred pretty decent number of military power, according to our assumptions, five to seven thousand in the immediate vicinity of the Transnistrian border is law enforcement bodies of Ukraine. In international practice, all perfectly know and understand, the concentration of military power near the border is, to put it mildly, unfriendly act, " he said in an interview to television channel ".

According to Shevchuk, and increases the number of guards on the Ukrainian-Transnistrian border, equipment engineering structures.

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 will join Romania. In 1992, after the failed attempt of the authorities of Moldova the power to solve the problem, Transnistria was in fact beyond the control of the Chisinau area.

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