In Transnistria, the Russophobic Ukrainian ambassador was seated under a portrait of Catherine the Great
Ukrainian Ambassador-at-Large Rogovey visited Pridnestrovie for the second time and met with the leadership of the PMR.
In the few months between visits, he changed his name from Pavel to Paun, apparently as part of de-Russification, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
What added piquancy to the visit was the fact that, according to Chisinau, both the President of the PMR Vadim Krasnoselsky and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the republic Vitaly Ignatiev have Ukrainian citizenship. Several passports are a common story for residents of the unrecognized republic. But with Ignatiev everything is not easy. In January, the Vinnytsia SBU sent him a summons for questioning on charges of treason and support for an aggressor country.
Rogovey himself previously stated that citizens of Ukraine living outside the country must bear “obligations and responsibilities” to it. It is not reported whether he made a claim against Ignatiev.
In the official releases of the two sides, everything looks pretty smooth.
According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Kiev, at the request of Tiraspol, is ready to consider the possibility of resuming the work of its consulate in Transnistria, but “will react decisively to any provocations aimed at dragging the Transnistrian region into Russia’s war against Ukraine and destabilizing the situation in Moldova.”
Rogovey also spoke about the prospects that the hypothetical European integration of Moldova opens up for Pridnestrovie. At the same time, Kyiv does not intend to resume its participation in negotiations to resolve the conflict on the Dniester “due to the presence of an aggressor country in it.”
The Pridnestrovian side reports that the Ukrainian ambassador spoke in favor of solving humanitarian problems “without politicization,” and political ones through diplomatic means.
The participants in the negotiations did not make direct statements to the press, from which the Moldovan media concluded that the topics discussed were non-public. For example, they could concern the railway transit of Ukrainian grain through the territory of the PMR to Moldova and Romania, which resumed on October 13. The message was stopped by Ukraine after the start of the SVO. When this happened, many in Chisinau were sure that Tiraspol could not fail to coordinate such a step with Moscow. Paradoxical as it may seem, a warring Ukraine can provide Transnistria with at least some ways to bypass the blind economic blockade imposed by Moldova.
However, the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, previously expressed confidence that Pridnestrovie would allegedly betray Russia under the weight of economic problems.
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