The flag of Latvia. File photoMOSCOW, May 2The Latvian Foreign Ministry calls on its citizens to leave the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic and refuse to travel there, the ministry said in a Twitter statement. we strongly urge citizens not to travel to the Transnistrian region, and those already there to leave the region,» the message says. Three terrorist attacks took place earlier in the unrecognized PMR — in the building of the Ministry of State Security in Tiraspol, near a military unit near the village of Parkany and on a tower radiotelecenter near the village of Mayak. A «red» level of terrorist threat has been introduced in the republic. The Investigative Committee of Transnistria opened criminal cases under the article «a terrorist attack committed by a group of persons using firearms.» The president of the unrecognized PMR, Vadim Krasnoselsky, said that the traces of the organizers of the explosions in Transnistria lead to Ukraine. The Russian Federation stated that it condemns attempts to involve Transnistria in what is happening in Ukraine, while the situation on the left bank of the Dniester is reliably controlled by peacekeepers.
Japanese Foreign Ministry recommended citizens not to travel to Transnistria, media reportTransnistria, 60% of whose inhabitants are Russians and Ukrainians, sought secession from Moldova even before the collapse of the USSR, fearing that Moldova was on the wave of nationalism join Romania. In 1992, after a failed attempt by the Moldovan authorities to solve the problem by force, Transnistria became virtually a territory not controlled by Chisinau.
