UKRAINIAN OBSERVERS WONDERING HOW TIRASPOL LEADER HAS MANAGED TO RECEIVE UKRAINIAN CITIZENSHIP

Transnistria president Vadim Krasnoselsky appears to have a Ukrainian passport and this discovery may complicate Moldova-Ukraine relations because Chisinau, unlike Kiev, does not give the Moldovan citizenship to the leaders of the separatist Donbass republics, Foreign Affairs Columnist Yury Matsarsky stated on the ICTV television (Kiev).

He wondered what is there that can link the Transnistrian authorities with the venal part of the Ukrainian officialdom, and reminded in this connection that until recently, Krasnoselsky frequented Kiev and even wanted to open an official representation of the unrecognized republic in the Ukrainian capital.

“The Krasnoselsky story abounds in inconvenient questions. Who and on what legal grounds has issued a Ukrainian passport to him? What for does he come to Ukraine? Whom does he meet here and hold negotiations with? Moldova may at any moment demand answers to these questions. Chisinau does not receive the fake leaders of the fake Donetsk and Lugansk republics, does not issue Moldovan passports to them and does not discuss the possibilities to open their official representations in Moldova, right? The rules of interactions with separatists and with accomplices to occupants must be same for all”, maintains Matsarsky.

He expressed surprise about the fact that yet not very long ago, Krasnoselsky was wanted by the Ukrainian police, but shortly before his election president of Transnistria, his name mysteriously disappeared from the search list.