Whenever the connection of Russian military personnel to events in Transnistria, the separatist-controlled territory of Moldova, or in the occupied territories of Ukraine’s Donbas, come up, Russia is quick to deny they were there at all. However, experts associate the unrecognized “Transnistrian Moldovan Republic” and the Luhansk and Donetsk “People’s Republics”(“DNR,” “LNR”) in eastern Ukraine more and more frequently. From the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine, Kyiv and Chisinau have with greater emphasis approached the problem of resolving the Transnistrian conflict and together with experts they search for the possibility of its settlement.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Traps of the Transnistrian conflict
Soviet orders are displayed on a large billboard along the main thoroughfare entering Tiraspol, capital of the self-proclaimed Moldovan Republic of Transnistria on April 3, 2017.
