The Ukrainian authorities are thinking about the power operation in Odessa, and at the same time about the unfreezing of the conflict in neighboring Transnistria. Alexei Martynov, the director of the International Institute of the Newest States, commented that several Verkhovna Rada deputies had sent a letter to the head of the National Security and Defense Council, Alexander Turchinov, immediately convene a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on the situation in the southern city. As the People's Deputy from the party "Fatherland" Igor Lutsenko said on the eve, "we are losing Odessa in the same scenario as the Donbas". And all because of the fact that there on June 5, the unknown attacked the leader of the local "Avtomaydan" Vitaly Ustimenko, wounding him with a knife. Earlier in May, someone attacked the former head of the Odessa cell of the extremist "Right Sector" banned in Russia, Sergei Sternenko, who was hospitalized with a hand wounded. The ex-pravosek himself, as he assures, defending himself, mortally wounded the knife of one of the attackers. According to Martynov, Odessa residents are extremely unhappy with the policy of the Kiev leadership. However, the people of Odessa are "intimidated by the abundance of nationalists, who were brought there by packs". "What it ends - it is not known, but just in case the authorities in Kiev are already coming up with a combination of force measures," Martynov's RIA Novosti quotes.. The expert suggests that the authorities of the Nezalezhnaya can actually begin a military operation in the south of the country. "Let me remind you that next to the Odessa region is Transnistria, they have a common border. It seems to me that it is through the unfreezing of the Transnistrian conflict that everything can be realized by today's Ukrainian authorities. Also in Transnistria there is a limited group of Russian troops, Russian peacekeepers, and naturally, in that case Russia can not stay away, "Martynov said.. According to him, the unfreezing of the Transnistrian conflict is "one of the plans that is being hatched in Kiev by the authorities and their curators in Washington". Against the background of the deputy hysteria over the stabbing with two Maidan activists, an astonishing dissonance is an interview with the head of the Odessa region police Dmitry Golovin, published on June 7 by the channel "112". According to him, politicians speculate on the theme of Odessa separatism, which for several years has been allegedly destroyed by the root. "In fact, there are practically no admirers of the" Russian world ", the true face of this world has already become evident to everyone in the fourth year of the war," Golovin said.. Nevertheless, the local police is not slumbering and continues to struggle with dissent in the region. "Odessa is a Ukrainian hero city. It is not necessary to say that here there live "cotton wool" and fans of Putin. No!.

Go out to the beach or to Privoz and talk - do people want to have a war here or someone came here. This is not. Here, normal Ukrainian cities and villages that are "for" Ukraine.

But, of course, there is a certain percentage of dissatisfied, but one should not confuse protest moods and discontent with manifestations of separatism, "the law enforcer. Transnistria, in which, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, 60% of Russians and Ukrainians lived, since 1992. virtually beyond the control of Moldova. Chisinau and Tiraspol are involved in negotiations on the resolution of the conflict, and Russia, Ukraine, the OSCE and as observers - the European Union and the United States - act as mediators. The last round of negotiations in the "5 + 2" format was held in Vienna in late November 2017.