Gratitude to Ukraine

Parliamentarians Grigory Dyachenko and Vadim Levitsky took part in the opening ceremony of memorial plaque dedicated to the Ukrainian people who helped Pridnestrovians during the full-scale armed aggression of the Republic of Moldova in 1992. The place to install it is not accidental. This is the building of the capital's railway station. It was from here that the hardest days of the fighting with the use of enemy aircraft and heavy artillery in freight cars to Ukraine sent refugees. Officially, this status in the neighboring country was received by 117800 people.

The first to gather at Vokzalnaya Square were Tiraspol residents welcomed by presidential adviser Pavel Prokudin. He told a personal story. The initiative to install the memorial plaque at the railway station in Tiraspol — a gratitude cast in granite to Ukraine — belongs to the first President of our republic Igor Smirnov. It was supported by the PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky.

The tragic events of the early 90s unfolded before the eyes of the then lawyer of the Tiraspol City Executive Committee, and now the deputy of the Supreme Council Grigory Dyachenko. It was the House of Soviets that in those years was the headquarters of the resistance and organization of the vital activity of the republic. Evacuation of refugees took place here.

Grigory Dyachenko shared memories of how deputies from the Lvov region brought medicines by bus and took young Pridnestrovians with them on their way back, who were later placed in a camp in Lvov region.

With words of gratitude to the Ukrainian people, volunteers from Ukraine during the meeting were also addressed by the leaders of public organizations of Pridnestrovian Ukrainians, veterans of the strike movement.

Now Ukraine, together with Russia and the OSCE, is the mediator and guarantor of the negotiations conducted in the 5 + 2 format for the settlement of relations between Pridnestrovie and Moldova. Ten Ukrainian military observers as part of joint peacekeeping forces perform assigned tasks to preserve peace in the security zone.