Russian Foreign Ministry: provocation against Russian troops stationed on the left bank of Transnistria will be seen as an attack on Russia

[Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: provocation against Russian troops stationed on the left bank of the Transnistria River will be regarded as an attack on Russia], according to a report by the Tass News Agency on 19 June, Alexei Polishuk, director of the second Department of the Commonwealth of Independent States of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, warned in an interview that do not attempt to destabilize the situation on the left bank of Transnistria in any way. He stressed: "Russia (peacekeeping Task Force) is part of the international joint peacekeeping force and enters the region for legitimate reasons." Therefore, "any act that poses a threat to the security of the region and to the Russian peacekeeping task force will be considered an attack against the Russian Federation in accordance with international law."