With The Ukraine Crisis Continuing There Are Fears That The Frozen Transdniester Conflict Could Heat Up

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Radio Free Europe: With Russia Boxed In, Frozen Transdniester Conflict Could Heat Up

The Ukrainian parliament's vote this month to break off most forms of military and intelligence cooperation with Moscow over the conflict with Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine threatens to upset an uneasy peace in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region.

The Verkhovna Rada voted on May 21 to scrap a series of bilateral agreements on military cooperation with Russia, including a key provision that allows Moscow to send forces by land across Ukraine to the breakaway region.

William Hill, the former head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova and now a scholar at the Wilson Center, a nonpartisan research group based in the United States, says it's the first time Ukraine has formally abrogated its agreement with Russian soldiers, and the move could be a "serious step."

WNU Editor: NATO has always warned that this breakaway region could "blow-up" .... Is Russia About To Seize Moldova's Separatist Transdniestria Region. My prediction .... nothing is going to happen. It will be an inconvenience to the Russian military .... but that is about it.