UNIAN: Ukraine ready to provide Russia with corridor for withdrawal of troops from Transnistria

By UNIAN.

Published April 17, 2018 at 5:24 pm

A child stands on the T-34 Soviet tank set as a monument in the center of Tiraspol, capital of self-proclaimed Moldovan Republic of Transnistria on April 3, 2017.Kiev has long suspected that Russia never intended to seize Ukraine's east but to create a "frozen conflict": a festering wound that allows the Kremlin to meddle at will and hamper any moves closer to the West. The scenario has been repeated before when Moscow decided to support two breakaway regions in ex-Soviet Georgia.

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Ukraine’s Special Representative for Transnistrian Settlement Viktor Kryzhanivsky says Ukraine is ready to provide its territory for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Transnistria, while the Russian Federation is showing no willingness to withdraw its forces from the region.

Speaking at a panel discussion in Kyiv titled “Traps of the Transnistrian settlement: How to avoid them”, he said Ukraine agrees to the withdrawal of Russian troops from Transnistria via the Ukrainian territory, a UNIAN correspondent reports.