Oct. 9 () –
A Russian Foreign Ministry official, Alexei Polishchuk, warned on Sunday that Ukraine is trying to force Moldova to attack the pro-Russian region of Transnistria.
“Between April and June a series of terrorist attacks have been carried out in Transnistria and the clues lead to Ukraine, according to Tiraspol”, the capital of the self-proclaimed Republic of Transnistria, Polishchuk pointed out in an interview with the Russian news agency TASS.
“Meanwhile, kyiv denounces a threat from the Russian military contingent on the left bank of the Dniester River. The objective is obvious: to try to provoke the Moldovan authorities to use force” in Transnistria, Polishchuk pointed out, thus warning of the risk of an escalation of violence in Transnistria.
“This has to do with attempts by external forces and first of all by kyiv to destabilize the situation in the region,” he argued. “It is gratifying that Chisinau understands the consequences of ‘unfreezing’ the conflict in the Dniester and does not respond to provocations,” she added.
Regarding the dispute over Transnistria, a ‘de facto’ independent region only recognized by Russia, Polishchuk has defended the current framework with Ukraine and the EU as mediators and Transnistria and Moldova as interlocutors.
On the other hand, Polishchuk has denounced that the United States is waging a third-party war in Ukraine and has assured that Washington is forcing its allies to send weapons to kyiv.
“It is no secret that Washington is implicating its allies and forcing them to send weapons to Ukraine. France and Germany are going to increase military-technical aid. The United Kingdom is training Ukrainians with instructors from Poland, Canada, New Zealand and other Western countries,” he said.
“The European Union is going to create a mission to provide military aid to Ukraine. This will cause an increase in its degree of involvement in the conflict,” he warned.
Polishchuk has referred to “red lines” in this aid, “the supply of long-range or more powerful weaponry.” “The concrete measures in response to the actions of the United States and its allies will be decided after analyzing the current situation. Our country has sufficient tools for it,” he indicated.
Transnistria is an unrecognized separatist state located between the Dniester River and the border between Moldova and Ukraine, which has currently managed to place itself outside the control of the Government of Chisinau, acquiring attributes of a State, including its own currency, police, army and postal service. .
With the fall and subsequent disintegration of the Soviet Union, and with the possibility of Moldova becoming part of Romania, several districts on the eastern bank of the Dniester, with a majority Russian-speaking population, proclaimed the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic in the early 1990s.
