MOSCOW, July 1. /TASS/. It is Moldova, which prevents the withdrawal of the Operational Group of Russian troops from Transnistria and shifts responsibility, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"The Moldovan authorities themselves are preventing the withdrawal of the Russian military presence from Transnistria and are trying to shift the blame from their sick head to the healthy one," the diplomat said at a briefing.
She said that among the tasks of the Russian group in Transnistria are peacekeeping and the protection of ammunition depots located there since the Soviet times.
"To create conditions for discussing the withdrawal of the Operational Group of Russian Troops and the Russian contingent of the joint peacekeeping forces, it is necessary first of all to settle the Transnistrian conflict," she said.
Zakharova stated that this is exactly how it is formulated in the documents dated 1992 and 1997.
